Imagine your first-grader constructing a robot in a science class to represent animals’ habitat adaptations. Or maybe a third-grade student using Minecraft to build a virtual world based on a book ...

DIY robots are becoming the gateway to coding. Over the last couple of years, a new wave of cute-faced bots has taken shape to make programming languages fun for kids. Instead of dense textbooks and ...

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 ...

Kids need to learn how to code. It’s the common adage around modern education. And of course it would be great if all kids learned a programming language or two before they graduated high school, but ...

Of all the youth extracurricular activities, dancing and coding are increasingly common. But have you ever seen a class that combines the two? The West Park Cultural Center is exercising adolescent ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Students at Central High School have a new high tech friend to learn from. Ryan Pepper is a social robot who uses facial recognition and Artificial intelligence (AI) to ...

From the switches and circuits to the wheels and wires, the Best Robotics summer camp might look complicated and a bit chaotic. "I had no clue what robotics was, what a robot was, all I knew was he ...

Preschoolers through high schoolers in Skagit County interested in STEM, coding, robotics and more can have fun and learn new skills at the Skagit Coding and Robotics Club, opening Jan. 9 in ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Rather than sitting at home and playing video games, 15 students who just completed third- through fifth-grades are learning about coding and robotics as part of the Topeka ...

CES 2017 - Every year CES gathers many interesting startups and this year was no different. One of the most interesting things that caught our eyes is a little spider-robot that appeared to be dancing ...

There are plenty of educational coding robots, but few have moves like UBTECH's dancing robot MeeBot. UBTECH launched the JIMU build-your-own-bot kit for MeeBot in 2016. Today, the company unveiled ...

Marina Umaschi Bers, SM ’97, PhD ’01, was working as a journalist in her native Argentina in 1992 when an assignment put her in touch with MIT mathematician and computer scientist Seymour Papert—the ...