In addition to being an adorable robot companion, Anki's Cozmo is now getting a programming platform of its very own. Starting today, Cozmo owners will have access to "Code Lab," a visual programming ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In order to build new human children who can compete in tomorrow’s post-work world, we must teach kids to code. Everyone agrees, even Obama. Unfortunately, coding is hard and often abstract. To that ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Eleven-year-old Zion Williams is very creative and likes to build all types of things from scratch. That’s why she and 70 other students in grades three through 10 spent their ...

The future of robots is shaping up to be wonderful for couch potatoes: they can , , and now they can even bake cookies. This latest breakthrough comes from the Distributed Robotics Lab at MIT where ...

Ask Zivthan Dubrovsky what it takes to turn kids into lifelong coders and he'll mention a spark. Dubrovsky leads a bio-inspired robotics team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, and knows a lot about spark.