This cute robot can entertain, and educate, for the price of a flagship phone

While it’s not the most advanced humanoid robot we’ve seen, its price — a little more than many flagship smartphones — makes ...
The Spokesman-Review

With a dancing robot and autonomous submarine, UI’s robotics program is settling into its new space at North Idaho College

The first law of robotics, according to science fiction, is that robots may never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The first “rule” of robotics in John ...
CNET

These Disney princess and puppy robots teach your kids to code

Disney's Belle adds programmable dance moves, while FurReal introduces a robot pet dog with a customized personality. Both are arriving from Hasbro this year. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in ...
Engadget

Kids' bot breaks into a dance to teach them how to code

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 ...
WDRB

Central High School gets advanced robot for students to learn coding

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 ...
NBC DFW

Students teach robotics and coding at Best summer camp

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 ...
Mashable

Meet Root, the robot that helps students understand programming

Kids need to learn how to code. It’s the common adage around modern education. And of course it would be great if all kids learned a programming language or two before they graduated high school, but ...
TweakTown

This dancing spider-robot will teach you programming

CES 2017 - Every year CES gathers many interesting startups and this year was no different. One of the most interesting things that caught our eyes is a little spider-robot that appeared to be dancing ...
New Atlas

Voice-controlled robot can morph into a car that races around the room

Originally a bunch of children's toys, then comic books, cartoons and movies, robot action figures than morph into vehicles and back again have proved immensely popular over the years. After a ...
WIBW

Students learning basics of coding and robotics at Topeka Public Schools Summer Enrichment program

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Rather than sitting at home and playing video games, 15 students who just completed third- through fifth-grades are learning about coding and robotics as part of the Topeka ...
MIT Technology Review

A robot to teach coding—and build character

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 ...