STOUGHTON - Elementary school kids crowded into the Old Colony YMCA in Stoughton Saturday afternoon to learn the basic of programming robots. The kids took advantage of a partnership between the YMCA ...
We occupy a world where human-robot interaction is constantly evolving. This means that learning to interact with machines at ...
The first law of robotics, according to science fiction, is that robots may never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. The first “rule” of robotics in John ...
Imagine your first-grader constructing a robot in a science class to represent animals’ habitat adaptations. Or maybe a third-grade student using Minecraft to build a virtual world based on a book ...
The Arizona Science Center is teaching first to sixth graders about robotics and coding through Camp Innovation.
Code rules everything around me. And you. Really: be it the stoplight you stared at this morning, or the train you rode in on, or the lil’ robot vacuum keeping your floor ever-so-slightly cleaner ...
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 ...
CES 2017 - Every year CES gathers many interesting startups and this year was no different. One of the most interesting things that caught our eyes is a little spider-robot that appeared to be dancing ...
There are plenty of educational coding robots, but few have moves like UBTECH's dancing robot MeeBot. UBTECH launched the JIMU build-your-own-bot kit for MeeBot in 2016. Today, the company unveiled ...
Of all the youth extracurricular activities, dancing and coding are increasingly common. But have you ever seen a class that combines the two? The West Park Cultural Center is exercising adolescent ...
Marina Umaschi Bers, SM ’97, PhD ’01, was working as a journalist in her native Argentina in 1992 when an assignment put her in touch with MIT mathematician and computer scientist Seymour Papert—the ...