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.

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).

In short this project makes it easier to put together the building blocks of real robotics and simulate what will happen when you activate the motors and sensors.

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.

“We realized what we had was the building blocks of a custom system. We decided to make a company dedicated to making building these custom robots as easy as playing with LEGO.” ...

But what if there was a way to bridge that gap? This robot arm guide offers a guide to building a mini robotic arm using Arduino, complete with 3D-printed parts and easy-to-follow instructions.

It’s designed to be strong and easy to build, using a minimal number of parts that are all available online, which makes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...