This article describes the process undertaken by three students from Feilding’s Manchester Street School as they designed and built a robot that won the New Zealand VEX IQ Challenge. The article offers an authentic way of introducing students to programming and computational thinking, as well as physics and engineering concepts related to energy, weight, and balance.

This article explores the development of artificial intelligence (AI) from a social and ethical perspective. It invites the reader to consider high-level questions about the future for this technology, what emotional intelligence is, how humans think, the ethical implications of building AI that act like humans, and what would happen if AI became more intelligent than us.

Try a fun robot building project. Make a robot from household parts or take it a step further with real robotic equipment and challenges.

Robots are a popular topic that children enjoy learning about. These fun robotics based activities and ideas offer students the chance to learn more about robots while having fun at the same time.

Teach the basics of robotics with this introduction lesson plan. Help kids understand some of the important definitions as well as key ideas behind robot mechanics and artificial intelligence.