Coding competitions drive critical thinking and help students develop workforce skills. Here’s a look inside the recent state finals for the New Hampshire Cyber Robotics Coding Competition, held at ...

If you try talking to young children about the joys of programming, you may witness eyes glazing over faster than ever. But mention robots and smartphone control, and see how laser-focused their ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of stories about ways in which students are benefiting from the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation’s Classroom Grants. Five brand-new miniature robots ...

LAS VEGAS >> You’ve seen apps and toys that promise to teach your child to code. Now enter the robots. At the CES electronics show in January, coding robots came out in force. One convention hall area ...

If Pramod Abichandani succeeds, swarms of tiny robots will invade grade school classrooms throughout the Philadelphia area. While he’s far from an evil genius, Abichandani did have a wild idea a few ...

Teachers or parents looking for a way for their children to learn more about coding robotics and electronics may be interested in a new programmable robot called Codey Rocky. Specifically created to ...

Over the past few years, I’ve wanted to learn more about coding, beyond my basic understanding of HTML and CSS. I started out on Codecademy learning basic front-end web stuff, then got into learning a ...

Kids' robotics company Wonder Workshop is launching two new robots designed to introduce children to coding in a fun, hands-on way. First up is Cue, the slightly older sibling of the company's 2014 ...

LAS VEGAS — There are scores of robots designed to teach kids coding skills, but most are either targeted toward young children with limited programming experience, or older kids whose skills are more ...

Pretty much as with any other language, learning to code seems to get increasingly difficult the older you are—for every app or start-up idea that you’ve had over the years that went unrealized, you ...

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 ...