I have no idea what these VEX robots are, but ROBOTC is the language that was developed at Carnegie-Mellon. The goal of the language was to make a language that was easy to use to program robots.

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Long enough ago that I remember which birthday it was, my in-laws gave my older son the Vex Robotics Starter Kit as a gift. Man, that thing looked so cool! And so... complicated. It ended up sitting ...

We haven't heard much about the Carnegie Mellon-developed ROBOTC programming language since it went into beta testing way back when, but it looks like the kinks have finally been worked out -- at ...