If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

Brooklyn Robot Foundry's Jenny Young showed us how to build a tiny Mars Rover for under $25. You’ll get into the basics of electrical circuitry, motors, and lighting—perfect for kids over 7.

In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.

mTiny robot review: Screen-free coding for kids The adorable bot is better suited for younger kids, but it's still plenty of fun.

We tested electronics kits with kids ages 7 to 12 and got feedback from parents and makers to find the most engaging ways for kids to learn about electronics.

Ziro is a nifty programmable robotics kit for kids that had a successful Indiegogo campaign last year. And the company behind it, ZeroUI, is still adding new features. By default, Ziro kits come ...

Moxie is a $1,500 robot from an Amazon-backed startup that can have conversations with kids to help them learn — take a look at how it works By Mary Meisenzahl ...

All this is important not actually for letting robots raise our kids as I jested above, but for making all human-computer interactions more natural — without overdoing it or making it creepy.