About Beginner Kits Beginner Robot Kits have the following general characteristics: Suitable for an average age of 8+ (see each kit for specific information) Easy to assembly and no soldering required Pre-programmed or remote controlled Usually one or two degrees of freedom (motions)
About Gears EDS The GEARS-IDS Invention and Design System gives teachers the industrial strength tools they need to create world class engineering and robotics challenges for their students in the comfort and convenience of their own classrooms. The GEARS-IDS Invention and Design System is offe…
Professional Development Platforms Professional development platforms are ideally suited to higher level education and research institutions. Increasingly, educational and research institutions are looking past the hardware to focus solely on robot intelligence. Professional platforms a…
About Lynxmotion Think of the Lynxmotion series of servo brackets as a variety of different modular parts for servos that essentially allows you to build your own custom robot. Lynxmotion is known best for its modular metal brackets that are used to make the frames of a variety of different robo…
About INEX Robotics IN novative EX periment Co. Ltd.” is an educational robotics manufacturer with its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. INEX reaches many countries all over the world in different countries and states.
About VEX Robotics VEX Educational Robotics is a robotic building system which allows you to design, build, control, then disassemble and rebuild remote-controlled, autonomous or semi-autonomous robots. There is also a VEX Pro series which allow you to make even larger and more powerfu…
Do not miss the new up-to-date and detailed How to Build a Robot - Grand Tutorial Series. The following article will show you how to build a simple robot, called "The Beetle Robot", created by Jerome Demers. It's great for beginners and is easy to do.
Most three and four wheel drive omnidirectional robots cost $500 and up and are usually intended for the research rather than the hobbyist market. For those who have the knowledge to design and build their own omniwheel driven robot, matching all the parts can be a daunting task: finding the right …
We all love Arduino. This open-source microcontroller is incredibly successful, mainly thanks to the fact that it is powerful, very simple to program, and has allowed the community to develop derivatives and accessories. Arduino Leonardo Recently, there has been a new addition to the Ard
About Arduino Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving i…
Making a robotic arm is a good introductory project for those wanting to get started with robotics. A simple robot arm can be straight forward to build and would require hobby servo motors to actuate each joint, a control system such as the Arduino, and a power source. Nevertheless, one of the mos
We all like the World's Most Useless Machine. For those who do not know what it is, see the video below, it is pretty funny and self-explanatory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4 Lately, we saw a more robotic and definitely more moody useless machine. As shown in the video below, this ma
This insane creation, entirely made out of LEGO, came to us via our forum. Not satisfied with making a single pick-and-place delta robot, Shep built four of them and put them above a conveyor belt and made them sort colored blocks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VxCl6w3HS0 The video shows h
Skynet is slowly becoming a reality. A Google researcher suggests that the future of robotics is in cloud-computing. This means that robots could offload their more complex tasks to remote servers that could do the heavy computations. It also means that robots could instantly learn new skills
We all dream of having appliances and machines that can obey our spoken commands. Well, let's take the first step towards making this happen. In this second iteration of Carlitos' Projects, we are going to build a speech-controlled Arduino-based robot. You may be thinking that makin
This is the first in a series of electronic or robotic DIY projects. These projects are accompanied by instructional videos that will help you trough the many steps involved in completing the task at hand. For this first iteration, we are making an RGB LED Mood Cube. Glowing colour-changing obj