The Roboni-i targets an audience aged above 12 (although younger kids should still enjoy the basics of it), and given the high price, any sane person would have equally high expectations for it.

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

Parents wanting to get their kids into coding from an early age are spoiled for choice, with toys like Vortex, Codeybot, Photon and Cozmo, but there aren't many gadgets for an older audience wanting ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

[Kevin] undertook a robot build partly for his own enjoyment, but also to include his kids in the action. He acquired a cheap toy and packed it full of programmable goodness. The starting point was a ...

Sphero is known for its line of programmable robot toys that help teach kids how to code while having fun. However, most of its products are designed for older kids and need a companion app (thus a ...

DFRobot, a company that has been building robots for the education market since 2008, this week introduced its first attempt at making a robot accessible to all children, with the debut of Vortex – an ...

[Eric Gregori] picked up this little yellow robot as a kit build. It has a single PCB inside that has a pair of IR emitters and detectors pointed downward at the front of the robot. It is able to ...

FOR MILLIONS of mechanically inclined young tinkerers, the Erector set (known in Europe as Meccano) has been the ultimate kit. This collection of perforated metal beams and panels, held together with ...

Gearbugs has created a new smart toy and programmable robot which can be transformed using a modular construction system into a wide variety of different vehicles and robots. Armz Comes complete with ...

Last fall at a hackathon inside a featureless, low-slung warehouse in north-central Boulder, Colorado, one of the first outside software developers to get his hands on a brand-new robot had an idea: ...

The buzzy new Star Wars toy is a real-life robot that is controlled by smartphones Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE You no longer have to go to a galaxy far, far away to have an authentic Star Wars experience.