The robot itself can navigate obstacles, detect lines and report back by using infrared, grey scale, and sound speakers. DFRobot is running a Kickstarter campaign to bring the Vortex to manufacturing.

If Pramod Abichandani succeeds, swarms of tiny robots will invade grade school classrooms throughout the Philadelphia area. While he’s far from an evil genius, Abichandani did have a wild idea a few ...

No need to code, compile and test, Root users can see their programming changes live on the Root robot. The iPad and robot stay in constant contact via Bluetooth low energy.

With the JIMU robot, UBTECH Robotics, a Shenzhen, China, company that has been around for eight years, is stepping into a space that's quickly getting cluttered with motorized toys.

Two years ago, Harvard researchers developed the AERobot, a $10 programmable robot meant to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. But Root differs from those efforts.

Code your way through conundrums.Starting out, you just get a few lines taught to you. That's where I'm at right now, after a few missions. I can get my engineering bot to do very simple things ...