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.

What once seemed like a gimmick and over-complicated, robot lawn mowers have entered a newer, simpler era.

You trust robots more if you’re allowed to build them yourself, research suggests It turns out if you want people to get invested in robots you need to let them get hands-on.

Check out Pulte’s video of their construction robot at work. For more details on PulteGroup’s construction initiatives and technologies, visit their website here.

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).

Why not the real world? The main obstacle to scaling this model up, and why we’re not putting this on any real robot yet, is that it’s hard to compute the channel capacity of an agent and a human far ...

It takes building a few not very good robots to learn how to build better ones. You’ve got to be hands on and trying things. If it doesn’t work, always find out why at all costs, and then fix it.

Angle was working to turn iRobot and its Roomba robot vacuum cleaners into the brains of the smart home before he left the company following the collapse of its sale to Amazon in January of this ...