This rural Arkansas elementary and middle school teacher gives her students rich STEM experiences by using a creative mix of ...

Know how to program robots? CEO says now's a great time to learn The open-source Robotic Operating System (ROS) just turned eight. Here's why you should get involved.

How do you make a robot smarter? Program it to know what it doesn't know Date: November 28, 2023 Source: Princeton University, Engineering School Summary: Engineers have come up with a new way to ...

Whether it's which tasks we can automate, the cost and time necessary for robot automation or how workers can contribute, the rise of easy-to-program robots forces us to rethink our assumptions ...

The biggest challenge with robots is enabling them to do many different things in many different situations, instead of just sitting on an assembly line ...

Robotics classes are becoming popular in middle and high schools, but now a new program aims to bring those 21st century skills to early childhood education.

The NXT-G software lets users build programs for Lego Mindstorms NXT robots and then transfers the code via USB or Bluetooth from the computer to the robot.

Gupta and others formed Play-i, a startup focused on programmable robots aimed at children as young as five. Their idea is to make learning how to program robots easy.

You might think a robot would be more likely to win people over if it were good at its job. But according to a recent study, people find imperfect robots more likable.

If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

If robots can learn to respect human social norms, they will become much better at navigating busy spaces like airports, malls, or city sidewalks.

Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and ...