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How do you get kids enthused about computer science? How do you generate excitement about math or engineering? Wonder Workshop believes the answer is robots. “It’s amazing to see the response of kids ...

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There are efforts to promote coding to kids, but they're typically aimed at an older demographic -- few young children are ready to sit at a keyboard and start writing. Play-i hopes to foster that ...

Find out how to build your own robot and make a friend for Robert the Robot from Justin's House! It's really easy and can be done using simple materials you might have in the house.

There’s a new trend happening. Call it the Daddening of Tech: men who have made their fortunes in Silicon Valley suddenly having children, and becoming concerned that the walled gardens they in part ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Vikas Gupta lives and works among Silicon Valley's brightest engineers, but he worries about his 2-year-old daughter's chance for a decent education to thrive in a world run by ...

[Benjie Holson] is an experienced roboticist and wrote an interesting article published on IEEE Spectrum about how the idea most people have of non-roboticists is a myth, and efforts to target this ...

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 ...

We saw tons of new stuff at CES this year. But one thing that particularly caught our eye was Kubo, the robot that teaches kids how to code. Kubo is a pretty simple robot – it’s about the size of a ...

Ron Evans thinks it's about time that everyone should be able to make robots. Or at least tell them what to do. The world of robotics right now is still dominated by grad students, he says. "But the ...

Robots make everything look easy, but there's actually a lot of work going on under the hood to make even simple tasks happen. But through impeccable design, practice, and some good programming, they ...