The educational acronyms of the 21st century look a bit different from those of previous generations. The “Three R’s” (which, confusingly enough, weren’t even R’s to begin with) have since largely ...

Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

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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 ...

The Codeybot dances, plays music, changes colors and even shoots laser beams -- all to entice little tykes to start programming. Within 24 hours of launching on Kickstarter on Tuesday, the Codeybot ...

We’re not telling you anything new by saying that coding, robotics, and 3D printing are, to quote Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy, “kind of a big deal.” But for most of us, knowing that information and ...

If you want to get kids' full undivided attention, you'll have to think of a fun way to do things. That's why a group of roboticists from Harvard's Wyss Institute created Root: a small hexagonal robot ...

DFRobot, a company that has been building robots for the education market since 2008, this week introduced its first attempt at making a robot accessible to all children, with the debut of Vortex – an ...

It turns out you can teach a robot how to do the moonwalk and the Macarena. With a backdrop of pop music and Python code, Litchfield Middle School eighth graders set the wheels — and mechanical arms — ...