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 ...

The team at Project Lab have created a new system to help make learning to code fun and easy, whatever age you may be. Mojobot has been created to make coding and robotics accessible to all and offers ...

Toymakers from around the world met in London from Tuesday to Thursday last week (23-25 January) to prexent their newest creations at the 2018 London Toy Fair. Among the wide range of dolls, bikes, ...

K-12 robotics has greatly expanded with increased advocacy for coding and programming--here are some of our favorite resources for classrooms Efforts to get kids coding have exploded in recent years, ...

STEM-based schoolwork is a key part of your kid’s curriculum, but encouraging genuine enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, and math that extends beyond the classroom requires more than a ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

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