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Education
Mumbai Schoolchildren Build Robot to Revive Maharashtra’s Traditional Puppetry
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🗓 30 Aug 2026, 10:33 AM
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A team of Mumbai school students has constructed a robot designed to rekindle interest in Maharashtra’s age‑old puppetry tradition.
A group of primary and secondary school students in Mumbai, under the guidance of their teachers, assembled a functional robot last week as part of a cultural‑technology initiative.
The robot, equipped with movable limbs and a simple control interface, mimics the gestures of traditional string puppets, allowing it to perform short folk narratives that are typical of Maharashtra’s puppetry repertoire.
Organisers hope the project will attract younger audiences to the fading art form and plan to showcase the robot at upcoming school festivals and local cultural events.
The robot, equipped with movable limbs and a simple control interface, mimics the gestures of traditional string puppets, allowing it to perform short folk narratives that are typical of Maharashtra’s puppetry repertoire.
Organisers hope the project will attract younger audiences to the fading art form and plan to showcase the robot at upcoming school festivals and local cultural events.