There's lots of arduino robot kits that you can use to build little toys with, and they are fairly easy to setup.
"Makeblock" is a company that sells even easier kits where all sensorics are already integrated, similar to how the old Lego Mindstorms EV3 (31313) kit was built back in the day when it wasn't overcommercialized.
I'd really recommend the makeblock stuff because it's better for both use cases: also with no programming necessary, just building and using their app to program/script it.
In the workshops I'm doing at schools where the children don't have preliminary experience in coding, they can get motivated really fast. And the older groups (teenagers and up) rediscover the sets because they realize they also can be programmed with the Arduino IDE. In those workshops we were using the "Makeblock Ultimate 2.0" sets (which meanwhile aren't sold anymore in the EU, sadly), but maybe you can get lucky on eBay?
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There's lots of arduino robot kits that you can use to build little toys with, and they are fairly easy to setup.
"Makeblock" is a company that sells even easier kits where all sensorics are already integrated, similar to how the old Lego Mindstorms EV3 (31313) kit was built back in the day when it wasn't overcommercialized.
I'd really recommend the makeblock stuff because it's better for both use cases: also with no programming necessary, just building and using their app to program/script it.
In the workshops I'm doing at schools where the children don't have preliminary experience in coding, they can get motivated really fast. And the older groups (teenagers and up) rediscover the sets because they realize they also can be programmed with the Arduino IDE. In those workshops we were using the "Makeblock Ultimate 2.0" sets (which meanwhile aren't sold anymore in the EU, sadly), but maybe you can get lucky on eBay?