KinderLab Robotics is the creator of KIBO, an educational robot toy that enables young children to learn critical technical, problem-solving, and cognitive skills in a developmentally appropriate and playful way.
KIBO is a robot kit based on 15 years of child development research that lets 4-7 year olds build, program, decorate and run their own robot. Kinderlab offers teaching materials and integrates STEM elements into non-STEM curricula. KIBO requires no computers, tablets, smartphones of IT support.
While STEM education products exist for middle- and high-school students, KinderLab uniquely fills a need for a critical population: children under the age of seven. KinderLab products are based on over 20 years of academic and field research into how young children learn foundational concepts in programming and engineering by integrating them into a multidisciplinary curriculum that includes literacy, the expressive arts and cultural studies.
KinderLab Robotics is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was founded by Marina Umaschi Bers and Mitch Rosenberg in May 2013. The first KIBO prototype, KIWI, was created in the DevTech labs of Tufts University in 2008.
KIBO is a robot kit based on 15 years of child development research that lets 4-7 year olds build, program, decorate and run their own robot. Kinderlab offers teaching materials and integrates STEM elements into non-STEM curricula. KIBO requires no computers, tablets, smartphones of IT support.
While STEM education products exist for middle- and high-school students, KinderLab uniquely fills a need for a critical population: children under the age of seven. KinderLab products are based on over 20 years of academic and field research into how young children learn foundational concepts in programming and engineering by integrating them into a multidisciplinary curriculum that includes literacy, the expressive arts and cultural studies.
KinderLab Robotics is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was founded by Marina Umaschi Bers and Mitch Rosenberg in May 2013. The first KIBO prototype, KIWI, was created in the DevTech labs of Tufts University in 2008.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Waltham
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 781-894-4022
Founded date: 2013
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