Imagine your first-grader constructing a robot in a science class to represent animals’ habitat adaptations. Or maybe a third-grade student using Minecraft to build a virtual world based on a book ...

Coding has become a very popular skill for children of all ages to learn. Add in the idea of creating your own robotics, and you have a fun program to engage your child. I recently came across a ...

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 ...

From the switches and circuits to the wheels and wires, the Best Robotics summer camp might look complicated and a bit chaotic. "I had no clue what robotics was, what a robot was, all I knew was he ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- There's a whole new way of learning happening at Magnolia Science Academy in Santa Ana. Some these students - are parents. "It started first class we were looking, what's ...

Can scientists teach a robot to dance with grandma? No, that question wasn’t a weird Mad Libs answer, this is the underlying focus of a study by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory, ...

Coding and robotics go hand-in-hand, and they’re becoming a more integral part of classrooms across the country. Aside from the excitement students muster when they see a robotics kit morph into a ...

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 ...

On a visit to a class in Sitka, Alaska, we watched second grade students gain incredible experiences in computer science skills. The teacher, Cindy Duncan, believes in teaching young children to code, ...