In addition to learning how to code the robots, the students have also read the book “Balloons Over Broadway” on the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

IPS students celebrate after successfully coding a robot to draw a square. While the challenges may seem fun for students, Sorenson said it is about learning lifelong skills at a young age. Currently, ...

Watching her students use the robots, Shern said, ”It’s super amazing, it’s fun for them to see how you can use coding to make something like a robot actually operate.

After brief instruction and exploration, the students learn how to program the robots using code. FINCH robots are designed specifically for the classroom and include block-based coding to ...

Teaching robots is usually code-intensive work, but Toyota has now found a way to allow a human to "show" a robot how to perform a task, which it can then repeat by Sebastien Bell ...

Whether it was coding for Minecraft, experimenting with robots, or discovering the magic of technology, The Hour of Code offered something for everyone.

But Google’s robotics researchers are exploring a way to fix that. They’ve developed a robot that can write its own programming code based on natural language instructions.

Toyota does not use code for its teaching method but shows the robot how to use cameras, tactile sensors, and learned representations of the objects that need to be manipulated.