DFRobot, a company that has been building robots for the education market since 2008, this week introduced its first attempt at making a robot accessible to all children, with the debut of Vortex – an ...

Folks have been using the popular Arduino DIY computing platform to build robots and all sorts of other simple computing devices for a while. Arduino boards are inexpensive and relatively easy to use ...

The Arduino Alvik is a small rolling robot that is programmed via an Arduino Nano ESP32 and has an STM32 Arm Cortex-M4. Alvik is intended as a learning platform for children, providing an introduction ...

A small Arduino robot has been launched via Kickstarter this week called the LittleBot “Buddy”, providing an introduction to robotics for fun and STEM education. Watch the introductory video below to ...

If you were a kid in the 1980s you might have been lucky enough to score a Big Trak — a robotic toy you could program using a membrane keyboard to do 16 different motions. [Howard] has one, but not ...

After a successful Kickstarter campaign the Arduino educational coding toy Cubetto is now available worldwide with prices starting from $225. The system uses a variety of different colourful blocks to ...

A startup wants to put BB-8 under the influence of a new kind of force. Charley Gallay/Getty Images Here’s a Silicon Valley truism: hardware is hard. So just like gamers control massive mechanical ...

TODAY’S KIDS will think it weird that robots were ever considered some space-age novelty. Children are already surrounded by voices (see Siri, Alexa) that respond to their every whim, and pet-like ...