Preschoolers through high schoolers in Skagit County interested in STEM, coding, robotics and more can have fun and learn new skills at the Skagit Coding and Robotics Club, opening Jan. 9 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introducing students to coding and robotics gives them early exposure to STEM in general. This early exposure, according to research, is key to the future of the workforce. Aside from the cool factor ...

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, ...

At a long drawing table in the Rolling Robots playroom a line of 4- and 5-year-olds in a “Bots for Tots” class are learning beginner coding concepts with a little help from a roving robot named Ozobot ...

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (WXYZ) — Adults may not love stepping on them, but LEGO's play a huge role in every kid's life. That's why a local business specializing in LEGO ...

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 ...

Hailing from somewhere between Silicon Valley and the Uncanny Valley, Hanson Robotics' Sophia is the unofficial face of robots right now. But while she's busy on UN business or hanging with Jimmy ...

Robots: they build your Teslas, assemble your iPhones, and now they teach your college kids. The Baxter Robot, created by Rethink Robotics, teaches undergraduate students at the University of ...

As much as I love the idea of STEM toys–gadgets that try to teach science, technology, engineering and math to kids—many tend to fall into one of two unfortunate extremes. Either they’re too ...