One of the key factors that have made it easy for the industry to assign robots as teachers is the fact that Baxter runs on ROS or Robot Operating System.

An effort is under way to make working with wet stuff easier in the hope of putting biology on more equal footing with less viscous technologies.

ROS allows anyone to be able to build apps that can run across a variety of machines. The Kuka Robot is another example of this kind of teaching robot that supports app development.