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Teaching tykes to program robots

two girls with crayons, a robot and cubes

KIBO allows young tinkerers to build a robot using supplied modular components, personalize it with art designs and then program it to do their bidding using colored program blocks.

Credit: DevTech research group, Tufts University


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In this video, children show off robots they built with KIBO. Marina Bers of the DevTech research group at Tufts University developed the cyberlearning technology with support from NSF.

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KIBO is a robot kit specifically designed for young children ages 4-7. KIBO gives children the chance to make their ideas physical and tangible, and KIBO does all this without requiring screen time from PCs, tablets or smartphones.

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The KIBO robot kit aims to teach young children programming skills.

Credit: DevTech research group, Tufts University