If you want to get kids' full undivided attention, you'll have to think of a fun way to do things. That's why a group of roboticists from Harvard's Wyss Institute created Root: a small hexagonal ...

The robot itself can navigate obstacles, detect lines and report back by using infrared, grey scale, and sound speakers. DFRobot is running a Kickstarter campaign to bring the Vortex to manufacturing.

We saw tons of new stuff at CES this year. But one thing that particularly caught our eye was Kubo, the robot that teaches kids how to code. Kubo is a pretty simple robot – it’s about the size ...

A Lexington parent and his robot plan to change the way children learn to code. Zivthan Dubrovsky, who runs the robotics lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, and his team have spent the better part ...