It’s hard to get kids to code. Up until very recently, it was largely inaccessible, with little curricula in place and few teachers qualified to teach it. And even today, with all the progress we’ve ...

I’m in a laboratory at Drexel University watching a remote-controlled robot do a spastic breakdance across the floor. The fist-sized, brightly colored bot looks simple enough: It has two wheels, two ...

Learning how to code can be daunting. It’s like figuring out a new language. Add robotics to that equation and it can be nigh impossible. But Anki, the creators of toys-to-life game “Anki Overdrive,” ...

A Lexington parent and his robot plan to change the way children learn to code. Zivthan Dubrovsky, who runs the robotics lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, and his team have spent the better part of the ...

Forget teaching your kid a second language. Now children all over the world increasingly are learning the language that powers tech innovations. But it’s hard to teach 8-year-olds basic coding, let ...

The robots are here. Brett Pipitone knows this, and thinks it’s important for kids to be exposed to the technology of tomorrow today, so he developed mimicArm—an innovative robot with compatible, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — It's not every day you come across someone who knows how to code a computer, especially if that person is an elementary student. At Indianapolis Public Schools' Ernie Pyle Elementary ...

Teaching is a challenging task, particularly when it comes to robots. Traditionally, instructing a robot on how to execute a new task required the creation a complex piece of code, which the robot ...