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 ...

When I made robot outfits for my kids a couple years ago, I used a bunch of cardboard boxes I found at the recycling center and a whole lot of packing tape. There were parts that particularly used a ...

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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 ...

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 its ...

Parts range from $1.99 for more reflective stickers to up to $13.99 for the cardboard robot body, with plenty in between for other pieces and parts. Our games editor Andrew Webster noted in his review ...

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 ...

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A great example of science fiction inspiring technology, these space-dwellers are straight out of Star Wars. MIT professor David Miller used Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber training droid as a model for ...

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 ...

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, ...