Incoming Lyons Middle School seventh grader Avery Gibson is spending the week meeting “really cool” socially assistive robots and learning to code one. Working with a classmate, her mission was to ...

Second and third grade students at Bon Air Elementary School in Lower Burrell are celebrating March Madness this week — but with a ping-pong basketball, a plexiglass court, paper displays of defenders ...

On a hot morning this past summer, a sleepy John Crerar Library starts to rouse as Chicago Public Schools rising seniors arrived for a college-level robot programming course on the University of ...

The bell rang, and students started streaming into the classroom in twos and threes. Chatter filled the room as one booming voice shouted directions. Around 60 students gathered for teacher Ian ...

Center Grove senior Aarav Agrawal poses in front of the different iterations of Robby the Drummer robot that he has designed. Submitted Photo A Center Grove High School senior is helping young minds ...

The robots utilize paper-based electrodes and liquid crystal elastomers for asymmetric bending and crawling motions. Biological systems have inspired the development of next-generation soft robotic ...