  In this paper, we present preliminary work from a pilot workshop that aimed
to promote diversity and inclusion for fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
and Robotics for Children (air4children) in the context of developing
countries. Considering the scarcity of funding and the little to none
availability of specialised professionals to teach AI and robotics in
developing countries, we present resources based on free open-source hardware
and software, open educational resources, and alternative education programs.
That said, the contribution of this work is the pilot workshop of four lessons
that promote diversity and inclusion on teaching AI and Robotics for children
to a small gender-balanced sample of 14 children of an average age of 7.64
years old. We conclude that participant, instructors, coordinators and parents
engaged well in the pilot workshop noting the various challenges of having the
right resources for the workshops in developing countries and posing future
work. The resources to reproduce this work are available at
https://github.com/air4children/hri2022.
