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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 ...

No need to “say ahh” in order to get your temperature taken anymore. The standard thermometer, once a rather uncomfortable under-the-tongue device, has evolved by leaps and bounds. Qodome, a company ...

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 ...

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 love cheap stuff here. Who doesn’t? [Oscar Rodriguez Parra] does too, and wrote in to show us his super cheapey robot L.I.O.S. The build was for the AFRON design challenge, which involves building ...

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 ...

WESTFORD — If you love playing music, how would you try to enjoy more of it? For local soon-to-be-sixth-grade students Roshan Palakkal and Bharath Ramesh, the answer is to make a guitar themselves.

Can a pair of robots really teach your kids how to code? A couple weeks ago, a startup called Wonder Workshop reached out to me with a tempting offer: They had noticed from social media posts that I ...

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