“Robot Turtles has a sneaky way of teaching kids – as young as preschoolers – the basics of programming. Inspired by the Logo programming language, the goal is for kids to get their turtle ...

Ever since, the turtle has been the logo for Logo, a programming language developed to help people take the first steps into computer programming.

Now on Kickstarter, Robot Turtles is a new board game designed by a Google executive that teaches kids who can't even read the logic of programming.

Robot Turtles is designed for 3- to 8-year-olds, and is being offered to early backers for a special price of $29. The game is due to ship to backers in December, in time for the holiday.

Drawing robots like this for education are not new. [Seymour Papert] created one of the first turtle robots, seen at the left, in the 1980s. He even created the Logo programming language and ...

I have very fond memories of Karel the Robot from my computer science days in high school. We used Karel, a little shape on the screen, to complete tasks, navigate around the screen, and learn to ...

And, of course, the highly trained dog military dog of the future is not a canine at all, but some tiny hybrid of a turtle, snake, roach, maybe outfitted with one of Fearing’s robot-tails ...