You don't need to be a mad scientist to make a robot anymore. Make-A-Pede, a startup created by brothers Cole and Jude Brauer, designs and sells robot kits for kids. "Make-A-Pede is an educational ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike many STEM toys that rely heavily on building-block pieces, the Rider kit is ready to use out of the box and you don’t ...

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 ...

As much as I love the idea of STEM toys–gadgets that try to teach science, technology, engineering and math to kids—many tend to fall into one of two unfortunate extremes. Either they’re too ...

It used to be that if you gave a 3Doodler Start to a child, you'd have to throw them some stencils or otherwise pray they were creative enough to make something neat. Not so anymore. Eager to empower ...

Those viral Chez Robots are everywhere this summer — including summer camp. Eleven kids aged 7 to 10 attended summer camp last week, keeping cool and giving a voice to their very own “viral robot,” ...

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My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

Christmas gifts: Toys are the heart of Christmas for many children. Whether it's a friction-powered rock crawler vehicle for an adventurous kid or a detailed Lego set to spark creativity, the options ...