In a sea of coding-for-kids products, an update to Anki’s holiday-shopping darling, Cozmo the robot, may have one of the best chances of success. Read on.

Cozmo could recognize your face and greet you and play simple games with blocks. But now the robot is now getting smarter and easier to program with a tool called Cozmo Code Lab.

One way of doing this is to get learners to program a robot; instructing it to move about, perform tasks, and interact with its environment.

Vortex is an interactive robot toy which aims to be fun for children to play with, while teaching them to program. Currently looking for funding on Kickstarter, the Arduino-based bot comes ready ...

Dash Robotics makes small bio-inspired robots that teach kids how to program while they play.

Sparki is a robot that teaches kids how to program. It’s built on an Arduino, and uses a drag-and-drop programming UI so kids can get started “in minutes.” ...

We saw tons of new stuff at CES this year. But one thing that particularly caught our eye was Kubo, the robot that teaches kids how to code. Kubo is a pretty simple robot – it’s about the size ...