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.

Sensors are covered (light following robots, for example) and lots of suggestions for variations and modifications will make certain that young robot builders have plenty of future projects to ...

Japan-based PLEN2 boasts a tiny, completely open source bipedal robot that can do everything from skateboarding to play soccer.

The Arduino-based Kamibot, however, teaches kids how to code using Scratch, while offering fun customization with papercraft skins.

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.

The 9 Robot Toys for Kids That Make Learning STEM Fun Get them working on those science and engineering chops out of the classroom.

A child-size humanoid bot with a face inspired by comics is being used to teach interaction skills to kids who may lack an instinctive understanding of social cues.

Here’s how the project works: Instead of the robots instructing the kids, however, the kids instruct the robots — who are programmed with progressive writing algorithms that mimic human learning.