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 ...

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 ...

The first law of robotics, according to science fiction, is that robots may never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The first “rule” of robotics in John ...

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 ...

Faster Bluetooth pairing and a better app come to Sphero's educational platform. From painting to swimming to maze-running, we put it through its paces. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009.

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 ...

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 ...

Code rules everything around me. And you. Really: be it the stoplight you stared at this morning, or the train you rode in on, or the lil’ robot vacuum keeping your floor ever-so-slightly cleaner ...

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 ...