There's a new STEM option in town. The Robot Inventor kit can be turned into five robots, which can play basketball, walk, and shoot darts at intruders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

In Lego’s darkest days during the late 1990s, Mindstorms was a bright light that helped reinvigorate the brand. It’s been much quieter of late; but after seven years of silence, Mindstorms is blasting ...

The Asuro robot announced by Global Specialties is a small autonomous multi-sensor unit developed for educational purposes by the DLR, the German Aerospace Center. Completely programmable in C, the ...

Seamus Byrne is CNET's Editor for Australia and Asia. At other times he'll be found messing with apps, watching TV, building LEGO, and rolling dice. Preferably all at the same time. Robot kits and the ...

Sure, there are plenty of apps designed to teach coding to kids, but most of them involve iPads—and as any parent with little kids knows, the last thing they need is more iPad time. Enter KinderLabs ...

Lego has announced a new kit that lets children build robots from existing toy bricks and control the robot on a tablet Lego Danish toymaker Lego has debuted a long-overdue solution called Lego Boost ...

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