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 ...

Fighting robots are even more awesome than regular robots. But it’s hard for us to imagine tossing all that money (not to mention blood, sweat and tears) into a bot and then watching it get shredded.

Thanks to its corrugated construction, the Cardboard Robot lets you command your own industrial-size claw or film crane for a fraction of the cost of a metal arm. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser ...

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 ...

[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 you’ll ...

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There’s a new DIY robotics toolkit in town, and you don’t need to know anything about electronics or programming to use it. HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, ...

Agility Robotics’ Digit, one of the most widely deployed robots in manufacturing, takes a break from factory floors for some Halloween fun. In a short 36-second clip titled “Digi-tron is coming for ...

Who would have thought Metal Gear Solid was a documentary about fighting robots? A group of US Marines evaded detection by an AI robot using a cardboard box according to a new book. The book Four ...

The VELOCIRoACH is a small cardboard cockroach. It is fast. Very fast. For its size, it is the fastest robot yet created. In a single second, it scurries 26 times the length of its body. It can sprint ...

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 ...

There’s a lot to unpack with the build-your-own-controller series of Nintendo Labo kits. Figuratively, the two boxed releases, dubbed Variety Kit and Robot Kit, include many opportunities to build, ...