The issues he’s highlighting really come down to product design. [Benjie] points out that programming robots is super hard, but it’s also hard in more than one way and for more than one reason.

Pairing kindergarten and grade 5 students together to code and play with robots turns into a rich computer science experience for everyone.

The NXT-G software lets users build programs for Lego Mindstorms NXT robots and then transfers the code via USB or Bluetooth from the computer to the robot.

Know how to program robots? CEO says now's a great time to learn The open-source Robotic Operating System (ROS) just turned eight. Here's why you should get involved.

PyRobot could simplify the way researchers program their machines, and could even make it easier for non-robotics types to jump into the field.

When you think about robotics, Freescale Semiconductor probably isn't the first company to come to mind -- but they're hoping that will soon change. The company, which began its life as a division ...

A new STEM-based school program is teaching kindergarteners how to use robots Robotics classes are becoming popular in middle and high schools, but now a new program aims to bring those 21st ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer.

The biggest challenge with robots is enabling them to do many different things in many different situations, instead of just sitting on an assembly line ...

While our human teammates learn about us too, autonomous cars, robots and other systems typically don’t have the capacity to “sense” how we operate, or determine what a person may be ...

If robots can learn to respect human social norms, they will become much better at navigating busy spaces like airports, malls, or city sidewalks.