Brawny robots for brainy tots

Educational toys, new-age learning tools spin big money for startups, giants alike

Fancy your child aged 6-12 building robots and programming them with self-written software using new-age tools and toys made by Chinese educational technology, or ed tech, firms?

Well, if he/she hasn't done that yet, it could mean he/she may want to catch up with over 5 million children around the world who have been using educational robots or intelligent hardware made by Chinese startup Makeblock (2017 sales: 203 million yuan or $29.6 million, 70 percent of which came from overseas).