Everyone agrees, even Obama. Unfortunately, coding is hard and often abstract. To that end, some researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have built Root, a robot that “brings coding to life.” ...

Based in San Mateo, Calif., Wonder Workshop builds robots that help teach children age 5 and up how to code. Initially named Play-i, the company was founded in 2012 by CEO Vikas Gupta, CTO Saurabh ...

Root joins a long line of tools, from simpler programming languages to children’s books that teach coding concepts, that the code literacy movement has created in recent years. Even the idea of ...

DIY robots are becoming the gateway to coding. Over the last couple of years, a new wave of cute-faced bots has taken shape to make programming languages fun for kids. Instead of dense textbooks ...