XLR-ONE $500 Home Robot Project
XLR-ONE is a great example of a low cost 3D-printed robot that can talk, play with your family, and protect your home. This type of family robot is the wave...
Category "DIY Projects"
Make a Star Wars Style Outdoor Stove
An R2D2 or Darth Vader wood-burning stove would look very cool on your patio. Your friends will want one. The Force will be with you! You start with an old...
BattleBots Coming Summer 2015!!!
Crazy Action! Mayhem! Battling robots will be back on ABC this summer! It’s been 12 years since the original show – and this next generation of homemade robots will be...
Robi Can Dance and Talk With You
Wouldn’t it be great to have a small robot friend to play with and talk to? A Japanese inventor has created a one-foot tall robot that dances in rhythm to...
Fun! Make a Mini Rocket Ship . . .
Today is a great day to be a Rocket Scientist! We can celebrate NASA finding the long lost Beagle 2 Mars lander. Start by gathering a wooden match, a large...
Meccanoid Is Your Ultimate Life-Size First Robot
Meccanoid is an Erector Set on steroids! It’s a kit for building a life-size robot, a rover, a dinosaur or whatever you want. You can easily program your creation to...
The 4 High School Kids and PVC Pipe Robot That Beat MIT
10 years ago 4 Mexican immigrant high school kids and their cheap PVC pipe robot beat reigning champion MIT in a national underwater robotics competition. With no experience, 800 bucks,...
Meet Billy the Blue Beetle – Can You Build This?
How cool is this? Watch how PhD student Jonathan Spitz designs and puts together a fun 3D-printed Arduino hexapod robot. After 20 days of rapid prototyping it can already walk...
Poppy is a 3D-printed Robot
A new open-source 3D-printed robot named Poppy can soon be your friend! A team of French scientists from the Flowers Lab are sharing their design and instructions with the world....
Teen’s invention wins International Competition
13-year-old Marin Schultz has won a $10,000 grand prize and a University fellowship for his breath-controlled robotic arm. Marin is a 9th grader from Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. “I want...
West Virginia University team wins $5,000!
The West Virginia University robotics team received $5,000 for being the only team to complete the first level in NASA's Sample Return Robot Challenge 2014. This is WVU’s third-straight win...