There are also ways to pair the robot with a maze or series of maps. “This ties into using musical notes as pieces of psuedo code for kids,” Mano said. Meet Wigl!

Google researchers believe natural language processing and AI will allow robots to develop their own code to respond to new instructions.

Chinese hardware start-up Makeblock aims to help students build robots and learn to write computer programs in a fun and educational way as the trend of incorporating robotics into education ...

But Google’s robotics researchers are exploring a way to fix that. They’ve developed a robot that can write its own programming code based on natural language instructions.

Harvard researchers have built a $10 robot that has been designed to teach children how to write code. The small AERobot can be connected to a computer via USB and programmed in a specially ...