GridBot

Teach a kid to code — then to train AI — on a $10 touchscreen.

Kids snap together commands — forward, turn, jump, loop, function, sense, zap — hit RUN, and watch their robot try to reach the battery. It never ends, it gets harder, and new powers unlock as they climb. Then, at the very end, GridBot flips it: once you can write the rules, you learn to train them — backprop, Q-learning, evolution — all on the same $10 board. Fully offline.

What you get

• Tap-to-code blocks a 6-year-old can read
• Loops, functions & sensing — real algorithms
• Train a NeuroBot — a real neural net, on the chip
• Always-solvable procedural mazes
• Arena: Race · Soccer · Battle — code or train a bot
• Tournaments — Cup brackets & round-robin ladders
• Pixel editor — draw your own robot
• 17 badges, level biomes & a coin shop
• 18 NeuroLab + 7 CodeLab bite-size lessons
• Two-player hotseat & multi-device radio

Peek inside

For parents & teachers

GridBot teaches programming and a genuine intro to machine learning — backprop, reinforcement learning, evolution, memory (RNNs), even self-play — as things you do and watch, not jargon. The Grown-Up Guide sits beside the game: the big idea + questions to ask for every lesson, a classroom track, an AI4K12 / CSTA standards map, and an honest "is this really how AI works?" appendix. No coding or AI background needed.

Teaching a class? There's a ready-to-run 5-day course that takes a kid from zero to a soccer-player bot they trained themselves — present it straight from the classroom slide decks (one per day, full-screen, with on-device screenshots), or read the all-in-one Complete Course / one-page curriculum.