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| 16.06.2025 | Safeguarding children against the risks of a digital world | Listen
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In today’s tech-saturated world, it’s essential to equip children with digital literacy – while also finding a healthy balance between screen use and h... |
| 28.04.2024 | Screen Time with Purpose: 10 Educational Tech Gadgets for Kids | Share
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Children are growing up surrounded by technology. While excessive screen time can be a concern for parents, there are ways to ensure that the time spent on devices is both enjoyable and educational. Educational... |
| 21.11.2023 | The 20 best STEM toys and games to gift young learners and curious minds | There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic. The hype that started about a decade ago, powering a wave of startups to launch creative and experimental products — pitching parents on dedicated connected hardware and a... |
| 06.11.2023 | The 20 best STEM toys to gift coders-in-training | There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic. The hype that started about a decade ago, powering a wave of startups to launch creative and experimental products — pitching parents on dedicated connected hardware and a... |
| 23.08.2019 | Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life | When Sphero laid off 45 employees in early 2018, the Boulder, Co.-based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market after a foray into creating consumer toys. Today, the robotic toymaker... |
| 23.01.2019 | Defining the Differences Between Enterprise, SMB and Consumer Companies | I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Here are some thoughts on company-wide structural differences and how we product managers get our work done. It’s a more precise, i... |
| 06.11.2018 | The ultimate guide to gifting STEM toys: tons of ideas for little builders | Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide! Need more gift ideas? Check out our Gift Guide Hub.
The holiday season is here again, touting all sorts of kids’ toys that pledge to pack ‘STEM smarts’ in the box, not just the usual battery-... |
| 11.10.2018 | Parents at Play: Get busy with fantasy figures, remote control cars, robots | COURTESY TOY STATE
Turbo Panther is designed for high-speed remote-controlled fun on any terrain.
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Program, dance with, fist-bump, and event text with this amazingly agile, wisecracking robot called the Cue Robot.
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| 26.01.2018 | LittleBits’ Droid Inventor kit is the first STEM toy that works | I’ve been watching STEAM and/or STEAM toys with great interest and great skepticism. While many parents and teachers report great success with programming toys like Cleverbot and whatever this thing is, I’ve found that kids (and parents) I ... |
| 14.11.2017 | Deals | Tencent led Wonder Workshop’s $41 million funding round | Writer: Zong Di
The idea of STEAM, abbreviation for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math, originated in the U.S. The term is typically used when addressing educational policy and curriculums. Parents and teachers who adapt STEAM e... |
| 31.10.2017 | Wonder Workshop Raises $41M in Series C Funding | Wonder Workshop, a San Mateo, CA-based creator of clever robots that teach kids of all ages creative problem solving, coding, and robotics, closed a Series C funding round and associated financing of $41m.
Backers included Tencent Holdings,... |
| 31.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, October 31 | DEAD AND GONE
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| 30.10.2017 | Educational robot maker Wonder Workshop raises $41M from Tencent, Madrona and others | Wonder Workshop robots Dot and Dash. (Wonder Workshop Photo)
Wonder Workshop, which makes robots that teach children computer science concepts, said it has raised $41 million in a Series C round.
The funding round includes global tech giant... |
| 30.10.2017 | US robots maker Wonder Workshop raises $41m from Tencent, SoftBank Korea, others | Premium
US educational robotics player Wonder Workshop has raised $41 million in a Series C round joined by Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings, MindWorks Ventures, and SoftBank Korea, according to a report in AVCJ.
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| 30.10.2017 | Wonder Workshop raises $41M for its chatty robots that help kids learn to code | The Bay Area-based Wonder Workshop announced today that it has closed a $41 million Series C round of funding. The team has built a number of very cool little robots that kids can program on their mobile phone in a manner that helps them gr... |
| 19.09.2017 | Wonder Workshop’s new CleverBot educational robots can grasp natural language | Wonder Workshop has unveiled two new CleverBots robots for children, dubbed Cue and Dot. The robots are designed to inspire children and teens to be creative and learn how to program robots.
The robots from San Mateo, California-based Wonde... |
| 19.09.2017 | Wonder Workshop’s new CleverBot educational robots can grasp natural language | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wonder Workshop has unveiled two new CleverBots robots for children, dubbed Cue and Dot. The robots are designed to inspire children an... |
| 18.10.2016 | Kids can now program Dash and Dot robots through Swift Playgrounds | A startup called Wonder Workshop is teaching kids how to code using Swift.
Founded in 2012, Wonder Workshop makes toy robots, called Dash and Dot, that kids can control with programs they create using Wonder Workshop apps, which feel more l... |
| 11.09.2016 | The Autism Solutions bot helps autistic kids | With one out of every 64 American children being affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder, it’s a huge problem worth working on. Shriya Sreeju (aged 6) agrees. She presented the Pepper Robot-powered Autism Solutions robot to the TechCrunch Disr... |
| 29.07.2016 | US robotics startup Wonder Workshop raises $20m led by Idea Bulb Ventures | Premium
Robotics startup Wonder Workshop, which produces educational toys to teach children how to code, has raised $20 million in a new series B funding round led by WI Harper Group and Idea Bulb Ventures.
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| 28.07.2016 | Charles River Ventures Joins $20M Series B for Wonder Workshop | Wonder Workshop, Inc. (www.makewonder.com), makers of the industry-leading Dash and Dot robots that teach kids computer science and coding fundamentals, today announced its $20 million Series B financing round and move into China as they wo... |
| 28.07.2016 | Robot Maker Wonder Workshop Raises a $20M Series B to Expand Internationally | Wonder Workshop is dashing towards new markets, especially China.
The maker of Dash and Dot has raised a $20 million Series B round led by WI Harper Group and Idea Bulb Ventures with participation from Learn Capital, Charles River Ventures,... |
| 28.07.2016 | Wonder Workshop Raises $20M in Series B Financing | Wonder Workshop, Inc., a San Mateo, CA-based maker of Dash and Dot robots that teach kids computer science and coding fundamentals, raised $20m in Series B financing.
The round was co-led by WI Harper Group and Idea Bulb Ventures with parti... |
| 28.07.2016 | Toy-robot maker Wonder Workshop raises $20 million in second funding round | By Subrat Patnaik
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(Reuters) - Wonder Workshop Inc, which makes toy robots that teach kids how to code, said it raised $20 million in its second round of funding and was looking to expand into new markets, especially China.
The Sa... |
| 07.07.2016 | Android co-founder Rich Miner is leaving GV to helm a Google education project | Android co-founder Rich Miner is leaving GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to start an education project within Google Inc., the investor announced today. Miner will be running his mysterious new edtech initiative from Cambridge, Mass.... |
| 19.06.2016 | 11 Toys for Kids Who Want to Code | This piece originally appeared on Uncubed.
We’re old enough to remember when educational games were limited to the back of a box of cereal. But a whole new generation of kids are lucky enough to have access to teaching toys, games, and gadg... |
| 22.10.2015 | My daughter took on Dash and Dot, the kid-friendly robots that teach programming | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them.
I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — D... |
| 22.10.2015 | My daughter took on Dash and Dot, the kid-friendly robots that teach programming | Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them.
I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static little partner — up and running less than... |
| 22.05.2015 | Watch This High School Computer Club Channel Tay Tay | In my high school years I learned programming from a robust man with a large mustache who practiced his golf swing while we coded in Pascal. Not once did we ever sing and I doubt he would have been able to make us had he tried. The teachers... |
| 05.05.2015 | Wonder Workshop Gets $6.9 Million—and a Home in Apple Stores | Few startups can claim Apple as their first retail partner. But today, Wonder Workshop can brag about that—along with a fresh $6.9 million in venture capital.
The San Mateo, CA-based startup behind a duo of programmable robots raised the fu... |
| 05.05.2015 | ‘Dash & Dot’ maker raises $6.9M for programmable toys that teach kids computer science | Wonder Workshop, the makers of the Dash & Dot toy robots that teach kids how to code, today announced a $6.9 million round.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, founded in 2012, sells robots that sync with a mobile app and help children... |
| 05.05.2015 | Wonder Workshop Raises $6.9M in Funding | Wonder Workshop, a San Mateo, CA-based developer of Dash & Dot smart robots, raised an additional $6.9m in funding.
Backers included new investor WI Harper Group and existing investors Madrona Venture Group, CRV, Maven Ventures, Bright ... |
