He wants to change that. Gupta and others formed Play-i, a startup focused on programmable robots aimed at children as young as five. Their idea is to make learning how to program robots easy.

Discover the fascinating process of creating a spider robot right at home with our easy-to-follow guide! This video takes you ...

Walt Perko stacks robot parts at his home on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Las Vegas. He is working on a program called RoboGuts that teaches kids and hobbyists how to make robots. (Rachel Aston ...

Brooklyn Robot Foundry's Jenny Young showed us how to build a tiny Mars Rover for under $25. You’ll get into the basics of electrical circuitry, motors, and lighting—perfect for kids over 7.

I built my first robot at age 7. It was made out of parts from an Erector set and stood about three feet tall. It had arms and legs and wheels under its feet. A (very weak) motor was supposed to ...

DIY robots are becoming the gateway to coding. Over the last couple of years, a new wave of cute-faced bots has taken shape to make programming languages fun for kids. Instead of dense textbooks ...

Wonder Workshop has deployed robots into 150 US schools to inspire kids to learn to code. The Dash and Dot robots are controlled using Android and iOS apps.

Dash Robotics makes small bio-inspired robots that teach kids how to program while they play. The bots are $50 apiece and come as a sheet of parts that you have to pop out and build yourself, like ...

AlesiaKan / Shutterstock When shopping for a robot kit for your child, consider the following: Age range: While some robot kits are simple enough for kindergarteners, others target teenagers. Look ...

What the researchers found with Piper was that older kids preferred, and were more responsive to, the more human-like responses from the robot that remembered previous interactions or choices ...