The most powerful educational kits for learning robotics and electronics are the ones kids love to use.
Something magical happens when you give your little boy and girl one of these kits. They can create unique projects for personal learning at almost every age. The robotics and electronics applications become more immersed through the power of modular components and versatile platforms like these.
Explore twenty-one of the best kits able to create a-ha moments for smart kids.
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- Recommended age: 12 years and up
- Price: $$
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With this mobile kit and a development board such as Arduino, sensors, and boards for wireless control, any kid can be initiated into robotics.
- Recommended age: 3 years and up
- Price: $$
Do you want your child to experience clean energy? This robot kit works on electrical energy generated by salt water. Give your children the chance to learn about clean energy while playing with robots.
- Recommended age: 9 years and up
- Price: $$
Create works of art with this little robot able to vibrate and spin while draw lines on paper. It is easy to build and fun to play with!
- Recommended age: 8-15 years
- Price: $$
This little robot is powered by the sun and good for children with the ability to assemble.
- Recommended age: 14 months and up
- Price: $$
Introduce your children into the robotics world in a fun way using a programmable robot featured with sensors able to detect the surroundings.
- Recommended age: 3 years and up
- Price: $$
Less is more. This small two-wheeled robot is ready to keep your children busy for days.
- Recommended age: 12 years and up
- Price: $$
Infinite extensibility with only one kit. Makeblock mBot 1.0 is an all-in-one solution to introduce your children to graphical programming, electronics, and robotics.
- Recommended age: 10-15 years
- Price: $$
Simple and intuitive. OWI is a plastic robotic arm gripper with multiple movements and functions.
- Recommended age: 12 years and up
- Price: $$
Everyone can code Raspberry Pi and build Android applications. This smart video car is probably the best starting point to learn, write, and teach coding the Linux development board – Raspberry Pi.
- Recommended age: 8 years and up
- Price: $$
This is the most intelligent ball. It is a smart toy gadget controllable via Apple or Android mobile devices. You want your child to play indoor, Sphero is ready to move anywhere in the house. You want your child to play outdoor, Sphero is waterproof, pet-proof, and ready for outdoor adventure.
- Recommended age: 10 – 15 years
- Price:$$$
LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is designed to inspire the engineers of tomorrow. The EV3 kit is an inevitable source of inspiration for any children with building abilities. With a wide range of components and an intelligent brick, anyone can build intelligent and interactive robots.
- Recommended age: 8 – 15 years
- Price:$$$
Build anything you can imagine in terms of robots. HEXBUG is a modular kit mainly used in robotics competitions.
- Recommended age: 9 years and up
- Price:$$$
Do you want to learn your children basic programming and a little engineering? Sparki is a low-cost way to get introduced to Arduino. You have all the code for free and lessons to learn.
- Recommended age: 12 years and up
- Price:$$$
Codeybot is an entertainment and educational robot who teaches basic programming through an array of interactive features.
- Recommended age: 8 years and up
- Price:$$$
These balls are magical. Is an exceptional way to teach kids programming through play.
- Recommended age: 9 years and up
- Price:$$$
This robot kit on legs is designed for the beginners who are willing to learn robotics, electronics, and Arduino programming.
- Recommended age: 4 – 15 years
- Price: $$$
Simple, intuitive and magic. Cubelets are modular robots that any kids can play with and have fun.
- Recommended age: 8 years and up
- Price: $$$
Make any kids happy with this robotics kit able to transform into an elephant, humanoid robot, wolf, rhino, and more.
- Recommended age: 8 years and up
- Price:$$
Create more a-ha moments for your children while playing with lights, sounds, sensing and buttons without wiring, soldering or programming.
- Recommended age: 10 years and up
- Price:$$$
This electro-pneumatic kit contains 440 components for building 4 functional models.
- Recommended age: 7 – 13 years
- Price:$$$
Wood, electronics, Minecraft, and excitement projects to introduce your children programming and electronics.
