Cozmo was supposed to be the new face of robotics ... to program through the updated Code Lab. And because Cozmo has complex abilities to recognize faces and remember names, and use its computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Other players in the programming ... which use code and words to teach programming. This instead is a video game and in its nature more engaging and less obviously teaches computer science ...