Exploring technology across generations.
GrandBot is a youth-led exploration of robotics, AI, and intergenerational engagement with older adults—creating opportunities to try new technology, share stories, ask questions, and imagine what technology could become.
Technology should connect generations,
not separate them.
GrandBot brings teenagers and older adults together to explore emerging technologies in an approachable, human way. Instead of starting with a product, we start with curiosity: What do older adults want to understand? What feels useful? What feels confusing? And what can young people learn by listening?
Explore
Make AI, robotics, and everyday digital tools tangible through demonstrations and hands-on experiences.
Listen
Learn directly from older adults about their experiences, questions, concerns, needs, and ideas for technology.
Connect
Create meaningful intergenerational conversations where young people teach, listen, document, and learn.
A simple cycle of discovery.
GrandBot activities are designed to be welcoming, conversational, and easy to participate in—especially for people who may not consider themselves “tech people.”
Try
Experience an AI tool, a robot, voice technology, or another emerging technology firsthand.
Talk
Share reactions and stories. What is exciting? What is uncomfortable? What could actually help?
Imagine
Turn what we learn into new experiments, stories, research questions, and ideas for better technology.
Small experiments. Real conversations.
GrandBot can grow through workshops, research, storytelling, and student-created prototypes—all informed by direct engagement with older adults.
GrandBot Exploration Kit
A portable collection of approachable AI and robotics experiences that teenagers can bring to senior communities for hands-on exploration and conversation.
GrandBot Stories
An exploration of how friendly, voice-based technology can help older adults tell and preserve personal stories—with AI supporting transcription and thoughtful follow-up.
Listening & Learning
Surveys, interviews, and observations help us understand how older adults perceive AI, robots, digital tools, and the role of younger generations in technology learning.
Intergenerational Exchange
A model for youth volunteers to become technology partners—not just teachers—creating a two-way exchange of knowledge, experience, and perspective.
“What if learning about technology became a reason for generations to spend more time together?”
That question is at the heart of GrandBot.
Help us explore what technology can mean across generations.
We welcome older adults, senior communities, educators, students, researchers, mentors, and collaborators who would like to participate or share ideas.