Bring more technology into your household tasks with this crane-like cardboard arm--it could also serve you some cool camera effects too.

It builds on an existing app-driven cardboard robot platform and will come as a kit comprising cardboard parts and re-usable electronics, and leverages the video comms chops of a user's smartphone.

Despite these challenges, the use of cardboard in this project highlights the potential for creative and low-cost solutions in robotics. Watch this video on YouTube.

The project involves using simple materials like cardboard for the robot’s body, which can be easily sourced from discarded packaging.

Cardboard is cheap and easy to work with, making cardboard projects approachable to any creative mind. There will be an audience for something like a Nintendo Labo for robotics, and maybe ...

In 2008, New Yorker Kacie Kinzer created a cute cardboard “robot” that was half art project, half social experiment. She set her little Tweenbot loose in city parks, carrying a sign asking for ...

Meet Boxie, the cutest cardboard robot to ever roam Earth. Boxie is the creation of a team researchers at MIT's Media Lab, who set out on a project to gather stories from people with only the help ...

United States Marines and representatives from Boston Dynamics look at Spot, a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation, during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

Cardboard makes a great prototyping material, but what makes the whole project sing is the way the designs allow for easy modification and play while being easy to source and produce.

In honor of GeekDad UnWired Week, I decided to re-create the GeekDad logo banner with actual robots … made of cardboard. So, on one of the hottest days of the summer (I think it hit about 103) I ...

Designed at MIT's Media Lab, Boxie is an adorable cardboard robot that films you with its eyes. Alexander Reben, of the Responsive Environments group, explains that Boxie's lack of complexity is ...

Westing, a paper engineer and book designer, proves just how much cardboard can do in more than 20 projects inspired by her not-for-profit BrilliantBuilds workshops. Among them: transforming ...