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 ...

Sooner or later, our children will be raised by robots, so it’s natural that Disney, purveyor of both robots and child-related goods, would want to get ahead of that trend. A trio of studies from its ...

Inspired by Lego, Tinybop’s Robot Factory encourages kids to design robots beyond their wildest imaginations. Kids shouldn’t be buying into a brand narrative. They should be creating the narratives ...

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 ...

The following is an excerpt from The New Breed: What Our History With Animals Reveals About Our Future With Robots by Kate Darling. The Huggable is a soft, fully animated blue teddy bear with a green ...

The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

We love cheap stuff here. Who doesn’t? [Oscar Rodriguez Parra] does too, and wrote in to show us his super cheapey robot L.I.O.S. The build was for the AFRON design challenge, which involves building ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

Ideally, every child learning a new language would have their own teacher. That sort of attention helps students learn more quickly. But, of course, most schools can’t afford one-on-one learning, at ...