Google and MIT have announced an initial free and open-source release of the 'App Inventor' source code for Android. In the same week that Google announced it will be closing its Picnik image ...

Breazeal spoke to Will Knight, MIT Technology ... turn on the camera app on your smartphone, you can step out of the action, and you can take a picture. But a social robot plays that role on ...

The MIT App Inventor is a platform that has a lot of potential for collaborative use. Talk about democratizing the process of change! Think about it – in the early days of responsive design ...

Boyer, founder of The STEAM Connection, created SKOBOTS — animal-shaped robots that perch ... STEAM education app that has attracted 35,000 users and secured an MIT grant.

In an official statement, the company said it will redirect its internal Mindstorms team into "different areas of the business" and that its Mindstorms Robot Inventor App digital platforms will ...

MIT’s project is part of the Center for Mobile Learning, which announced several months ago that it would be taking over App Inventor when Google shut down the service on December 31, 2011. As a ...

What makes the MIT App Inventor so powerful and easy to learn is that it relies on what is basically its own object-oriented programming language that is designed to be intuitive for application ...

Fast food could get even faster — with the help of robots. MIT engineering students Kale ... First, you order a meal using a smartphone app or the touch screen next to the machine.

During a class project, McLurkin organized around 20 of the robots to play music together. "James is a clever and inspired inventor," Rodney A. Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence ...

In the demo video, the robot is shown building a circular structure ... from the surrounding area if deployed in a remote area. MIT even notes that, once it’s built to be completely autonomous ...