What’s the biggest misconception people might have about youth robotics? According to DuPont’s education liaison, Peggy Vavalla, it’s the notion that robotics are too hard for the average kid. “Kids ...

(WTNH) — Folks with autism have trouble reading people’s faces and voices. They don’t get tone and nuance very well. But they do not have trouble with robots. One Connecticut-based robotics company is ...

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 ...

TAMPA — When the combined robotic teams from Jesuit High School and Academy of the Holy Names met 2-year-old Theo Rimes at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, the students' eyes lit up. Known as the ...

Robotics education is gaining STEAM (pun intended) in classrooms across the nation, and for good reason–it’s engaging, hands-on, and students learn real-world concepts as they solve challenges. And as ...

When a one-foot robot dog rolled into a Rock Springs Elementary School classroom recently, two dozen third-graders hounded its owners with questions. The talking robot reflects Gwinnett County Public ...

MSR students look back on their time demonstrating projects to visitors at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry David Khachatryan (MSR '25) was standing among dozens of roboticists and ...

MORE Technologies last week launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise US$20,000 for development of its open source robot ecosystem. The company will fund the project if it reaches its goal by April 21.

For obvious reasons, current educational technology is focussed on AI tutors and platforms that promise personalized learning. But even with all that innovation, giving meaningful, scalable support to ...