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Those who know Walt Perko agree that he is unconventional. As one enters his apartment in a senior community, a robotic skull atop a refrigerator lights up. At least 30 robots of several shapes and ...

A Lexington parent and his robot plan to change the way children learn to code. Zivthan Dubrovsky, who runs the robotics lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, and his team have spent the better part of the ...

Learning doesn't start, stop or end in the classroom. And DeLonn Crosby is trying move the education needle with screen-less technology. The Minnesota native and Harvard Business School alum is the ...

For obvious reasons, current educational technology is focussed on AI tutors and platforms that promise personalized learning. But even with all that innovation, giving meaningful, scalable support to ...

How to give a kid confidence in their abilities? Let them teach a bot that’s worse than them. Learning-by-teaching is a proven way for students to gain new skills. But does the technique work when ...

To get ahead in the 21st century, children not only need to be able to use technology but to develop it. That's why so many parents want their kids to learn how to code, and there's no better way to ...

If you want to get kids' full undivided attention, you'll have to think of a fun way to do things. That's why a group of roboticists from Harvard's Wyss Institute created Root: a small hexagonal robot ...

What if I told you that a robot can make you a cup of coffee just by watching a video of a human doing it? It's almost hard to believe, but it actually happened. Thanks to a breakthrough in artificial ...