Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

With Code Lab, users can program machine using Scratch Blocks tools. A new update to Cozmo will let users program the robot by using Scratch Blocks, a learning tool developed by Google and MIT.

‘My Loopy’ robot ‘comes to Earth’ to teach children how to write computer code With its artificial intelligence, My Loopy has seven toy-grade sensors that respond to touch, light, sound, proximity, ...

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If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

Just as the researchers did, you will need to translate the Ikea assembly directions into computer code that the robot could use to plan and execute its task.