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A grinning caterpillar zooms around the table with blinking lights. Its bright purple eyes light up as it takes a moment to process the commands attached as various segments behind its head. Designed ...

Like the Dash and Dot from our round-up of last year's best tech toys for kids, the upcoming Code-a-Pillar has been designed to teach kids how to code in an entertaining and engaging way. Fisher-Price ...

If there ever was a question whether science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) toys were the wave of the future, Fisher-Price just answered it once and for all. The toy giant just ...

And get this, it's called "Code-A-Pillar." Pretty adorable, right? Targeted at "the future coders of 2035," the $50 Think & Learn 'bot features different modules (segments) that correspond to various ...

Fisher-Price unveiled a new caterpillar toy robot at CES 2016 that aims to teach kids the basics of coding. Deemed Code-a-Pillar, the device teaches children between ages 3 and 8 how to problem solve ...

Kids learning to code on tablets and computers is becoming more commonplace in forward-thinking schools all over the world. Studies have shown that learning to code benefits kids by not only allowing ...