Parents wanting to get their kids into coding from an early age are spoiled for choice, with toys like Vortex, Codeybot, Photon and Cozmo, but there aren't many gadgets for an older audience wanting ...

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 ...

Sphero is known for its line of programmable robot toys that help teach kids how to code while having fun. However, most of its products are designed for older kids and need a companion app (thus a ...

Gearbugs has created a new smart toy and programmable robot which can be transformed using a modular construction system into a wide variety of different vehicles and robots. Armz Comes complete with ...

Ozobot, a little robot toy that reads colored stripes on paper, was already fun; my 10-year-old daughter has been playing with it all summer. Now it's getting a major upgrade to make it brighter, ...

The products range from programmable rovers to books that introduce the terminology of robotics and circuitry to childen. Purdue University Inspire Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering Each ...

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Last fall at a hackathon inside a featureless, low-slung warehouse in north-central Boulder, Colorado, one of the first outside software developers to get his hands on a brand-new robot had an idea: ...