Craft and construction kits have been a blessing in our recent lockdown phases, and now there’s a new one that might appeal to those interested in tinkering with robots. ArmPal is a robot arm kit that ...

Some of our readers will remember the Cubelets by Modular Robotics that we featured on the site back in 2010, the company now has a new modular robotics construction kit called MOSS. MOSS is designed ...

MOSS is a robot construction system that’s a delicate dance of form, function and accessibility; users build robots by snapping together modules with magnetic carbon steel spheres – no programming or ...

A new modular robotics kit has been launched via Kickstarter this week in the form of the MIND KIT, designed to provide a comprehensive yet easy-to-use development kit exclusively for robotics. Watch ...

Even if you never had an aptitude for electronics or programming, you probably wished you could build your own robot. Sure, you probably weren’t seriously thinking R2-D2 or Data or WALL-E, but if you ...

Move over Lego! Cubelets, inch-sized modular cubes that can be snap assembled into autonomous robots, are here -- and once you (or your kid) sees them in action, the hand-me-down, attic-dwelling box ...

Robots are cool. That much goes without dispute, but part of their appeal lies in just how complex, intricate, and versatile such machines can be, which in turn also makes them rather difficult to ...

It has never been easier to put a microcontroller and other electronics into a simple project, and that has tremendous learning potential. But when it comes to mechanical build elements like ...

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