In addition to being an adorable robot companion, Anki's Cozmo is now getting a programming platform of its very own. Starting today, Cozmo owners will have access to "Code Lab," a visual ...

In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.

“Stripping wires, learning how to use wire, practical stuff.” Eight-year-old Alex, a rising 3rd grader, showed me how they used Scratch, a visual programming language aimed primarily at kids, to code, ...

That’s why she and 70 other students in grades three through 10 spent their summer learning how to code and build robots at the Gifford Youth Achievement Center as part of the summer camp program.

It’s also based on the new Scratch-like Square programming environment that runs on an iPad and is designed to transition kids from drag-and-drop coding to classic text-based coding.

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