While child-sized humanoid robots like the Unitree R1 have come down in price, not everybody has a spare $6,000 to throw ...

Arduino microcontrollers have added Python to the range of compatible programming languages. Others can be used, and not just Arduino's own IDE app.

However, it was a challenge trying to teach my 10-year-old Arduino programming. That said, I observed he could zip through the Python tutorials on code academy pretty easily.

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