A robotic crane arm with a 6-foot reach would normally weigh enough to make you grunt and sweat every time you had to move it. Not so with the Cardboard Robot, a large computer-controlled crane arm.

Smartibots, a robotics platform engineered around foldable cardboard, launched on Kickstarter in late June. It's projected to ship by the end of 2018.

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

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 ...

We’ve covered innumerable robot arms over the years, This one may be the cheapest, but another contender might be this cardboard arm.

Goodbye, clunky metal robots. A neat new ‘bot from a German robotics design studio is a DIY affair that lets any Maker with an X-Acto knife slap together a programmable, moving machine. ZURI’s ...

Okay, so we might have made most of that up, but the developer of the robotic arm really is an aerospace engineer, he really does have a broken wrist, and he really did create a voice-controlled ...