Smartibot is the world’s first cardboard robot that can think for itself. We’ve been talking to the man behind it to find out how you’ll be able to assemble your own.

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The folks at Columbia Gadget Works, a Columbia, MO hackerspace had the solution: make the robots out of cardboard.

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.

How Do You Make A Robot That People Will Talk To? Make It As Cute As Wall-E Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adorableness rather than artificial intelligence to meet its goals.

You can check out the many iterations of his giant cardboard robot body at his Flickr page. Lentz also has a limited number of giant robot arms for sale at Etsy.