Makeblock’s mBot is an excellent toy for young programmers looking to challenge their knowledge and electronics skill in ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

Sphero, a known maker of robotic toys, launched a robotic toy car that hopes to help kids learn about the fundamentals of computer programming. The robot, called indi, can be programmed by kids using ...

LAS VEGAS – You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. At the CES electronics show in January, coding robots came out in force. One convention hall area ...

Robots don’t always cooperate with humans, as University students John Fischer and Dean Hougen discovered when their robot stopped last week in the middle of a demonstration for more than 20 ...

It took maybe four minutes for three kids to write a piece of code instructing a robot to drive around a soda can and then return to where it started. The students, who attend McClure Elementary ...

Nationwide — Terysa Ridgeway, a pioneering African-American computer scientist and celebrated children’s book author, is on a mission to ignite a passion for coding among children worldwide. With an ...

Coding gets interactive with a coding robot Caroline also uses. The robot comes to life after Caroline coded the moves from her computer. Her little brother and sister get in on the action too. “They ...

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email In today’s quickly changing digital landscape, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Cybersecurity isn’t just ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...