THOMASVILLE— Thomas County first graders at Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School use Bee-Bot, a programmable robot, to teach the basics of coding. In this spring-themed introductory lesson ...

With the new method the engineers don't just fabricate the robot, but also produce a surrounding "assembly scaffold" that's attached to the bee-bot by tiny hinges. When the scaffold is lifted by ...

These are Bee-Bots. They're the basic robots that kindys would use. I'll make one go now. Boy presses a button on the back of the bee robot, and the bee robot rolls forward. They can get places.

After two weeks of working with them, the school’s nearly 300 students broke up into teams to compete with their Bee-Bots, smiling black-and-yellow robots they program to move forward ...