A full-fledged robotics laboratory was opened in Madurai Municipal Corporation-run Thiru Vi Ka Higher Secondary School in Thathaneeri on Wednesday. Corporation commissioner Aneesh Sekhar, who inaugurated the laboratory, said this was the first time that such a lab with professionals in place to coach the students has come up in a government run school in Tamil Nadu. Ten kits have been purchased at a cost of Rs 13.5 lakh, and experts have been roped in to provide training to the students and a select group of teachers for the next one year. A group of five students can use a kit. Robotics would be introduced to students in all classes. There will be 400 to 500 components in a kit. By using them, the students will have to build a robot according to the given requirement. They will be introduced to coding language with which the students will have to create command to operate them. They will be asked to build robots to perform various activities.