Robots learn to imitate human movements from surface electromyograms of muscles; robots successfully learn to trap a dropped ball like a soccer player Dr. Kee-hoon Kim's team at the Center for ...

It’s been roughly two years since Sphero — the folks behind 2016’s adorable BB-8 robot — announced Sprk+, a plastic, programmable, app-enabled robot ball that teaches coding. In the intervening months ...

New York — Want even your younger kids to join the tech revolution by learning to code? Maybe you should get them a robot — or at least a video game. That’s the aim of entrepreneurs behind new coding ...

Apple's Swift Playgrounds educational coding app for iPad will soon connect with third-party devices like Lego Mindstorms Education EV3, Sphero SPRK+ robotic ball, and Parrot drones. I'm PCMag's ...

Sphero SPRK+ is the latest iteration of the robot ball toy, which is designed to help educate kids about coding. The ball features a tough clear shell which lets users see exactly what technology they ...

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 ...