Because social robots have a body, humans react to them differently than we do to a computer screen ... with a social robot shows students how difficult it is to program robots to mimic human ...

According to Code.org, 90 percent of parents in the U.S. want their children to learn computer ... visual programming language created by Google. Older students can use Objective C or Java to program ...

Undergraduate students ... code. The project culminated in a maze-navigation competition for the robots. “This process will give them a better grasp of programming concepts while fostering teamwork ...

Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible.

In May, a few hand-size, hexagonal robots ... students. Second, it had to be plugged into a computer to upload its programmed instructions, so it was cumbersome to tweak and test changes to ...

One answer, say researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, is a robot named Root. "Right now, coding is taught at a computer keyboard. It's an abstract process ...

The toy that teaches programming has been updated ... provide additional context about what the robot is doing to help kids troubleshoot their code that’s controlling it. Other improvements ...

Chinese hardware start-up Makeblock aims to help students build robots and learn to write computer programs in ... their robots by writing a simple program, which the company believes will help ...

Then he excitedly points to the projected screen ... of students swiftly copying his codes onto their new websites. Zheng, a fifth-year computer science student, only started programming two ...

Technology Director Justin Cowen used the money to purchase two mini-robots. Students ... see what that code does,” Cowen said. “Instead of having to run it on a computer screen, they ...