Over the past few years, I’ve wanted to learn more about coding, beyond my basic understanding of HTML and CSS. I started out on Codecademy learning basic front-end web stuff, then got into learning a ...

Kids need to learn how to code. It’s the common adage around modern education. And of course it would be great if all kids learned a programming language or two before they graduated high school, but ...

COVID-19 has put the world on pause and has forced many Canadians to stay at home. While limiting public exposure is of the utmost importance, boredom from staying at home is inevitable. To cope with ...

In theory, the idea of preparing kids for the digital world by teaching them to code using a robot that follows instructions is a pretty great one. It’s also one that entrepreneur and roboticist ...

DIY robots are becoming the gateway to coding. Over the last couple of years, a new wave of cute-faced bots has taken shape to make programming languages fun for kids. Instead of dense textbooks and ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Scientists have developed a new system that allows people with no coding experience to teach robots simple tasks, such as grabbing an object and dropping it into a bucket. The system aims to mimic how ...

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 ...

All the girls who were part of the coding and robotics session The Girl Code in collaboration with Vumatel held a school coding tour at Diepdale Secondary School where young girls were introduced to ...