Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

At a long drawing table in the Rolling Robots playroom a line of 4- and 5-year-olds in a “Bots for Tots” class are learning beginner coding concepts with a little help from a roving robot named Ozobot ...

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Robot Garage was founded in 2011 to teach engineering, coding, and robotics to kids. Its mission is to inspire the innovators of ...

One company is teaching children about computer coding and robotics through a Montessori-style approach. It’s called Code Wiz and the new STEM center is opening soon in Owasso. Code Wiz will provide ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

Nationwide — Terysa Ridgeway, a pioneering African-American computer scientist and celebrated children’s book author, is on a mission to ignite a passion for coding among children worldwide. With an ...

BEDFORD, Mass., June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT), the leader in consumer robots, has announced the addition of the Root coding robot to its product lineup through the ...

WAVERLY — Two second grade teachers in the Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District were awarded a grant to purchase robots for their classrooms. Sharon Chesnut and Stefanie Angell at Prairie West ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Is your child lit by something? Maybe it's cooking or writing, dinosaurs or trains, drawing or making music. We're starting a new series of Kidcasts about things kids love and how ...

A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". VERNON HILLS, Ill., Nov. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning Resources, the ...

Sales in educational toys are booming, but often there isn’t much weight to their claims of teaching kids science and math. By Chavie Lieber Botley is a small plastic robot that makes a big claim.