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Richard Margolin is part of the team that began dreaming up what it would mean to give children a cost-effective, inclusive education by using robots. RoboKind, where Margolin serves as chief technology officer, worked with experts in the autism community and schools around the world to develop two products, robots4autism and robots4STEM, and curricula to pair with each. 

“As a company that is breaking ground in the autism space, we had to find early adopters willing to take the risk of being the first schools,” said Margolin. RoboKind had years of academic research behind it, but schools were afraid of the risk, according to Margolin.