Robots make a wonderful context for teaching students about many concepts important to technological literacy. They can provide an authentic context and produce high levels of motivation. According to Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (STL) (ITEA, 2000, 2002), there are six core concepts that should be concentrated upon for students. These core concepts include systems, requirements, optimization, trade-offs, processes, and control. This article explores the incorporation of virtual reality software for teaching robotic control in today's technology classroom (see Table 1 for detailed advantages and disadvantages of each of the 4 options for teaching robotic control in schools today). Due to the high cost of supplying sophisticated robots in the classroom, VR software offers a low-cost alternative for teaching basic robotic control. Since the software works within a virtual space, there is no need for the physical robots, which require a large laboratory setup to be present, if the funding and space are available, robots may be linked to the computers so students could see that their computer program affects both the virtual and physical robots in the same way. Ideally, a school would have the funding for just one or two linkable robots, thereby satisfying the important advantage of a hands-on component. Without this funding, robotic control can still be introduced in the classroom. For now, virtual reality software for robotics is in its infancy stage, but as an increasing number of companies recognize VR technology's advantages for training and programming, it has the potential to become the industry standard.