The ability to throw objects accurately offers all kinds of advantages. Tossing is an efficient way to move an object without engaging your whole body, for example. You can reach places you couldn't ...

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 ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

Disney's Belle adds programmable dance moves, while FurReal introduces a robot pet dog with a customized personality. Both are arriving from Hasbro this year. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in ...

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Harvard's Wyss Institute developed an adorable robot that drives and draws on classroom whiteboards. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better ...

The team at Project Lab have created a new system to help make learning to code fun and easy, whatever age you may be. Mojobot has been created to make coding and robotics accessible to all and offers ...