Makeblock’s mBot is an excellent toy for young programmers looking to challenge their knowledge and electronics skill in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's no longer tough to find coding toys for young kids. Here's a look at your current options. All of the toys are either sold through major retailers or online. DASH AND DOT ($150 ...

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 ...

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That's the aim of entrepreneurs behind new coding toys for kids as young as 6. They're spurred by a desire to get children interested in computer science well before their opinions about what's cool ...

In recent years there's been an explosion of kid-friendly toys that can help teach the fundamentals of coding. Whether you want to explore the basics of programming with colorful blocks, or you're ...

LIKE MOST PARENTS, I want my young children to be prepared for the future—one in which knowing how to program a computer will be a basic skill, like clicking “Skip Ad” on YouTube. But as a longtime ...

Sales in educational toys are booming, but often there isn’t much weight to their claims of teaching kids science and math. By Chavie Lieber Botley is a small plastic robot that makes a big claim.

There once was a time when a toy section of the Engadget gift guide would have been a hodge-podge of toys that happened to take batteries, light up and make enough noise to annoy even the most patient ...