A Polish company you've never heard of, was just dubbed most promising startup in Central and Eastern European by the European Business Angels Network (EBAN). Photon Entertainment makes a small ...

Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round." On its website, it ...

Playing and Learning With Moxie, the AI-Based Robot for Kids Embodied’s Moxie robot wants to be your kids’ new best friend, helping them build confidence and self-esteem through AI-enhanced play. My ...

Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round.” On its website, it ...

Mattel Launches Kamigami Build and Code Robots for Kids Kids will be able to build the robot in an hour, program its behavior using a free app, and then start playing and battling them with friends.

If the death of Jibo taught us anything, it's that it doesn't take much for humans to become emotionally attached to their robot companions. But I suppose that's something we learned when Roomba ...

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

The latest educational tech comes in the form of a seven-pound robot that looks like something ripped out of a Pixar movie. Moxie, an adorable educational robot, is designed for teaching kids at home.

As much as I love the idea of STEM toys–gadgets that try to teach science, technology, engineering and math to kids—many tend to fall into one of two unfortunate extremes. Either they’re too ...

Remember when kids could simply play with their toys? They still can. But parents are increasingly spending on toys that are chockablock with tech components, and that promise to turn their kids into ...

Because children excel at anthropomorphizing the robots, kids who can’t physically be in school get the full educational experience–the good and the bad. For a kid, taking endless months off school ...