"Conceived in 2016 as a graduate class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology," the Duckietown ecosystem was "originally designed to provide an answer to the question: what is the least hardware we need for deploying single- and multi-robot advanced autonomy solutions?"
Jason (Computer Science) reports that 9th-12th graders in the Robotics course are now "learning how to build and control a robotic "car" that will eventually be able to navigate around a physical cityscape [inhabited by yellow ducks] that has marked roads and obstacles."