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Though not a particularly common sight, wheeled robots with tablet-like screens that allow people to be in two places at once have been around for a long time. But, useful as they are, they can be ...
Until recently, you might have added "cardboard robot" to the list. But a project called Kinetic Creatures on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter shows that it's a perfect combination.
Now, anyone can be a robotics designer with CardBoardiZer — a new computerized system that lets beginners turn static three-dimensional objects into their own moving robot.
[Miloslav Stibor] may have built Mimobot 2.1 out of cardboard so that it’s not very heavy, but the robot is absolutely no lightweight. Read through his logs (in Czech, or in translation) and … ...
Build your own DIY Boat-Bot — a floating robot that sails across water using a small motor and battery! 🚤🤖 This fun and easy science project is perfect for kids, school exhibitions, or STEM learning ...
ZURI is a programmable robot kit with a dozen different design variations.
Ken Ihara got started playing with robots during his time as an assistant in the Harvard Robotics Lab. Ken recently started a kickstarter for his latest creation The Cardboard Robotic Arm. With a ...
It may not be able to survive a nuclear blast, but this tiny VelociRoACH robot is pretty darn impressive. Although it’s just 4-inches long, the VelociRoACH can run so fast that it covers 27 ...
The robot moves, but with a jerking motion, and keeps making unintended turns. The primary cause of this seems to be the wobbly rotors, which mean that the output torque fluctuates throughout the ...
Nintendo Labo tests, part one: Robot Kit’s cardboard stomps are fun but shallow Kaiju-stomping half of Labo is intentionally thin. For many, that might be fine.