That’s what makes robotics for kids a win-win. Robotics kits reinforce those skills and give budding inventors the chance to be creative on their own, outside the confines of assignments and ...

The GoBots are designed to blow bubbles, make sounds and spin around to encourage children to put down their screens and play ...

Robots have been a big part of kids’ movies for years, especially before the millennium, with films like Bicentennial Man and ...

2020.3004325) the system takes in multiple camera views looking all around the robot. Results of image segmentation are then synthesized into a 2D top-down segmented map of the robot’s surroundings.

This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. When Goldie Nejat began developing robots in 2005, she spent much of her time knocking on doors in hopes of ...

The results showed that kids' activity levels, measured by multiple sensors and cameras, were higher in the presence of an active robot. "It was interesting to us that the simple autonomous ...