Ars Cardboard looks at Richard Garfield's "chaos classic." I've probably been playing Roborally for about 20 years - we played an original version with a family friend, then basically made our own by ...

There's no shortage of robot-based toys out there which are claimed to be both fun, and teach your budding young roboticist the basics of programming. Following in the digital footsteps of Play-i, ...

Learn the fundamentals of coding by losing yourself in these simple-but-devilish puzzles. Cargo-Bot’s Tetris-like simplicity is the key to its charm. The goal is to tell a robot arm how to move ...

We find the programming challenge of game-playing bots to be fascinating. Take a look at this Python bot which plays Burrito Bison all the way through (video after the break). This is a totally ...

"Sequence - Robot programming simulator" is a very enjoyable indie strategy game. You have to complete levels by reaching is end with the robot, you have to program the robots with commands to ...

From Fishing Cactus, developers of Epistory - Typing Chronicles, comes Algo Bot, a programming-focused puzzle game. In Algo Bot, players take on challenges controlling a maintenance droid over 46 ...

We're used to seeing robots by now with sensors on the bottom that allow them to follow a traced path. It's a pretty basic function — but one thing covering toys will teach you is that the best ideas ...

In the early 1980s movie WarGames, a kid from the Pacific Northwest hacks into the US defense system and activates what he thinks is a harmless game of Global Thermonuclear War. Unwittingly, he ...

OpenAI made headlines last year when it proved a bot could beat a professional gamer head-to-head at one of the world’s most complex video games. But it had one more gaming goal to conquer — to beat a ...