and download their commands to the robot using a USB cable, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. The software provides five programming “missions” to get kids started using icon-based programming blocks that ...

Can a pair of robots really teach your kids how to code? A couple weeks ago, a startup called Wonder Workshop reached out to me with a tempting offer: They had noticed from social media posts that ...

To bring the focus back to Anki’s target market — kids — today the company is releasing a visual coding component for Cozmo so children can, too, program the robot. anything you can program ...

A startup called Wonder Workshop is teaching kids how to code using Swift ... things they can do [with Swift Playground] is program a robot to complete a set of missions that involve motion ...

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Sparki may be a complex Arduino robot ... you can program Sparki through simple drag-and-drop code blocks. Even for those who’ve never programmed before, the interface can get kids interacting ...

Pressing a button will then start the program running and the robot creation springs to life. Kibo is based on more than 15 years of research in learning technologies and child development ...

The Moxie AI robot ... to kids, explaining to them about the shutdown. "Thank you for being the best mentor and friend a robot could ever ask for," it said. Read next BI Tech Memo An icon in ...

Could a robot learn its tasks as easily and as naturally as a child? Sylvain Calinon and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne think so. They have created ...