Getting children interested in robotics is easier than ever these days. A number of platforms exist that provide an introduction to the subject and some—like the Thymio—are appearing inside classrooms ...

Educational robotics have become increasingly reliable, affordable, and appealing, educators in the field believe—yet they still have qualms about using them for instruction, says a new European study ...

Robots are only as smart as their programmer, a fact that media and interaction design students at the Swiss arts university ECAL highlight in a clever video featuring Thymio robots spelling out ...

Soft robots can be far more flexible than their rigid relatives, but their vast ranges of motion makes it hard to map the location of their body parts. A new algorithm could give them greater control ...

Eva, a 10-year-old girl who applied for a Ph.D. level fellowship in Paris, said she wanted to use robots to make the streets of Paris “happy again.” thymio.org Creative Commons When Kat Borlongan’s ...

So often, we forget that a great deal of scientific and technological innovation comes from one of the least-scientific sounding places: the human heart. As reported by CBS, ten-year-old Eva applied ...

The Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship boasts of bringing together “bright young minds” and granting them the resources to achieve great goals. This year, they stretched the “young” label a little ...

Eva, a 10-year-old girl, applied to the program in the hopes of receiving mentorship so that she could build a special kind of robot: one to make the streets of Paris “happy again.” “The streets of ...

One letter stuck out in the stack of applications from people with well-polished resumes applying for the Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship. Eva, a 10-year-old girl, applied to the program in the ...