Charlie Daly has developed RoboProf, an automated teaching system that has been used at DCU to teach introductory programming and Algorithms and Data Structures. RoboProf generates questions on the fly which are appropriate to a particular student's understanding. RoboProf also generates appropriate responses to direct a student based on any misconceptions that their response might reveals.

In addition, Charlie Daly is interested in all aspects of the problems that students have as they attempt to develop programming ability. He has developed many tools to aid students. These tools include graphics and onscreen robot APIs, Web- based tools to encourage inter-student communication, tools to provide detailed feedback on student assignments, and tools to help support peer and self-assessment.

Arising from previous work in the area of embedded systems development (i.e. software tools and real-time kernels for small standalone microprocessor systems), Charlie Daly has a strong interest in computer communications and mobile robots.