To put human beach drawing to shame, Disney just unveiled a mechanical rake wielding robot, designed to look like a cute turtle, that can automatically draw any planar shapes with ease.

A game designed to encourage 3 year olds to code has debuted at the 2014 International American Toy Fair after becoming the most-funded board game in the history of Kickstarter.

After the robot was taught by 14 volunteers in the lab, the scientists posted questions to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Mechanical Turk distributes simple tasks to thousands of online workers for a small ...

Drawing robots like this for education are not new. [Seymour Papert] created one of the first turtle robots, seen at the left, in the 1980s.

The robotic turtle above can't wield katanas, eat pizza or shout cowabunga, but it can still do something awesome: draw big sand sketches on the beach. It's named "Beachbot" and was developed by a ...

And while the robot isn’t fast, (after all, it is a turtle robot) it is three times more efficient than a bipedal robot developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and performed ...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. As a youngster, you may have been told -- and quite rightly so -- not to stare directly at the sun ...

A beach robot creates large-scale sand drawings autonomously, sent to it wirelessly via an app.