Demoshop lets users program a robot by simply demonstrating the task they want it to do, rather than writing lines of complex code. Their new system was described ... Malone Assistant Professor of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

He wrote — and rewrote — code ... a computer with a camera in the engineering room and drove the robot out into the hall. Students saw the robot roll by with Raymond’s face on its screen.

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 ...

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 ...

In theory, the idea of preparing kids for the digital world by teaching them to code using a robot ... prototypes for a robot that kids could teach using a computer or tablet, he was astonished ...

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 ...

MIT’s Scratch programming language gives students a playground to figure out how computers use logic, with many exercises involving solving puzzles and mazes with code. However, I also know that ...