Will robots steal young people’s jobs? Leonardo, 16 years old, has no doubts. Robotics, he explains, will change our ways of thinking, doing things and working and will improve our lives. Young men and women must learn to create new jobs and enterprise. Robotics will just change work, not eliminate it.
Leonardo is, above all, a maker. It all started three years ago, when he focused on how a screwdriver works. That was when he decided what his future would be: solving daily problems with innovative solutions. At thirteen, a new milestone, he met an armless child and decided he would build artificial limbs, uniting his passion as a maker with one for robotics. Leonardo passed this fervour on to his school, too: the Liceo N. Sensale in Nocera Inferiore (Province of Salerno).
With the help of professors, his classmates and another maker, Valeria, who lives 100 km away, Leonardo created Team Flylion who will be at RomeCup 2016 (March 16-18) for the first time.
“Innovation must make eyes shine,” says Leonardo in this interview with Fiammetta Castagnini. And everyone’s eyes start shining, listening to the words of this sixteen-year-old full of passion for social innovation and general well being.
