A dedicated and talented user community has produced dozens of alternate programming environments for these robots, everything from Forth to C to SmallTalk.

The issues he’s highlighting really come down to product design. [Benjie] points out that programming robots is super hard, but it’s also hard in more than one way and for more than one reason.

A Winnipeg-based company is using 3D virtual models to teach kids the basics of programming robots.

Robotics classes are becoming popular in middle and high schools, but now a new program aims to bring those 21st century skills to early childhood education.

The battle is on for a bunch of sumo-wrestling Lego robots built and programmed by 100 elementary school girls from Surrey, B.C.