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Xai Robotics is hosting a Summer Engineering Camp for students ages 10–18, where participants design, build, and program robots, along with a free Saturday community chess program.
Xai Robotics, located at 5679 Coral Ridge Drive, will host its Summer Engineering Camp from June through August, offering students ages 10 to 18 the opportunity to design, build, and program robots. The camp runs Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and concludes each week with a live demonstration where students showcase the machines they built.
“At Xai Robotics, camp is not built around kits or counselor-led activities. It is built around engineering,” Isai Damier, CEO and Lead Engineer of Xai Robotics, tells Coral Springs Talk, “Students work across mechanical, electrical, and software systems designing parts, wiring circuits, writing code, testing behavior, diagnosing failure, and returning to the bench until the machine does what it is supposed to do.”
Isai and his wife, Annelise, lead the program themselves, alongside engineers with technical backgrounds, creating what they describe as a studio-style environment where progress is measured by working results.
“Students are not just exposed to STEM language,” Damier said. “They are taught how real systems behave and how engineers think when something does not work the first time. Progress here has to be demonstrated, not declared.”
Each week of the program focuses on a different robot and engineering challenge. Students may work on Titan, a high-torque rover designed for traction challenges; Strider, a coordinated four-legged walking robot; or Ascent, a terrain-adaptive rover built to climb obstacles taller than itself.
Other projects include Omni, which explores omnidirectional locomotion; Coil, which studies wave-like crawling mechanics; Mantis, a precision-walking robot inspired by animal locomotion; Tracer, designed for tight-turn path tracking; and Sentinel, a rover equipped with autonomous navigation capabilities.
According to Isai, the rotating projects are a main reason families continue returning to the program.
“Each week is a different machine, a different failure mode, and a different problem to solve,” he said. “Parents can see immediately that this is not generic STEM branding. It is structured, ambitious, and tangible.”
Beyond robotics, Xai Robotics is also opening its facility to the community through a weekly chess program. Every Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the lab hosts a free chess session open to youth ages 7 to 19 and to parents and adults who enjoy the game. The matches take place on 40 boards and mats originally used at the 2025 U.S. Chess SuperNationals, one of the country’s largest scholastic chess events.
Isai said the decision to acquire the tournament equipment was intentional.
“These are not generic classroom sets, but pieces with real history behind them,” he said. “We went to great lengths to acquire them, not to put them on display, but so local families could sit down, compete, think, and experience excellence firsthand.”
More information about the programs can be found at www.xairobotics.com.
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