In fact, programming them to learn like human babies might be the best way to make our robotic friends much more capable.

Gupta wants to build affordable robots which the non-technical parent would enjoy as much as a young child. “Programming tends to be an abstract concept,” says Gupta. “The best way to make ...

Traditionally, programming a swift robot requires engineers to pre-emptively work out all the possible variables in the environment that could be a drag, such as friction.

But Google’s robotics researchers are exploring a way to fix that. They’ve developed a robot that can write its own programming code based on natural language instructions.

In Ian Chow-Miller’s classroom at Mason Middle School, students learn to code robots with bricks many of them have seen before.

Teachers across the country are taking robots beyond STEM classes and into lessons on history, literature, geography—and even art and music.

A team of Burnaby students who designed, built and programmed an industrial-sized robot from scratch in six weeks is in Victoria this week to put it through its paces at a Mars-mission-themed ...