From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, kids love robots. Now there’s an app that lets kids build the wildest robots of their imagination from scratch, then send them out into an alien world to explore.

Robot kits can help children learn to build as well as to code. Based on our testing, here are the best kits for every age and skill level.

Oh, and they get to build their own robots, too. In that way, Thinkabit Labs is not all that different from the hundreds of tech bootcamps for kids across the country.

Lego’s Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit is designed to let kids build and design robots. The set has 949 pieces, including a color sensor, distance sensor, four motors, and Lego’s Bluetooth ...

The PR2 is a robot that is currently teaching itself how to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch at MIT. It turns out cookies are a pretty difficult thing for a robot to master, and, in the ...

Here was a reasonably priced robotics kit that actually delivered on its promise – building autonomous robots.

Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button—no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand. That possibility may be ...