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UBTECH Rolls Out New Programmable Robot

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Los Angeles-based UBTECH Robotics , which develops humanoid-like rbots for the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) market, said on Wednesday that it has launched a brand new programmable robot called the Yanshee. UBTECH said the new robot has interface that can be programmed in such languages as C, C++, Python, Java and Blockly.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

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Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So now the question is how to educate kids about it. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.