If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute offer a do-it-yourself kit and online instructions -- in 15 steps, you've got a Palm Pilot robot.

Learning to build a robot arm will teach you how to breadboard a circuit, how to program your Arduino, and how to work with moving parts. In the end, you’ll have a real, physical thing that does ...

The Shonkbot is what the team at Bristol Hackspace came up with for a robot that is obvious in its working and encouragingly easy to build, even for kids (with supervision).

Not only has [Joop Brokking] built an easy to make balancing robot but he’s produced an excellent set of plans and software for anyone else who wants to make one too. Self-balancers are a ...

Hanson himself is the creator of the robots Einstein, Zeno, Robokind, Brina 48, and others. This idea — developing a robot with a child’s intelligence — is interesting for two reasons.

Electronics projects for beginners: How to make a roaming robot Using a BBC micro:bit, motors and some sensors, here's how to make an autonomous robot that can roam around and avoid objects in its ...

Practical Plantoid Robotics has this week unveiled new easy to build organic robot kits it has created which cleverly combine both organic plant matter and electronics into one Plantoid cyborg ...

Robots are creeping farther into our lives each month. Kickstarter right now is packed with more than 1,100 projects that aim to build robot bartenders, robot gardeners and even a 15-foot robot ...

Airplanes aren’t made on assembly lines, so any robots used in their construction have to move around them. The member organizations of the European VALERI Project are now working on making such ...