Open source programming platform Arduino has spawned thousands of enthusiastic DIY-gadget heads. The Arduino board, with its "Made in Italy" tag, features a microcontroller that can be programmed for ...

If jigsaw puzzles and crafting projects are starting to feel a little stale to your household, we've got a new rainy day project for the kids (and the grown-ups, too): robotics. Don't let the name ...

Here is a very simple and easy robot named Line following robot. The line follower robot is a basic robot that follows a specific path indicated by a line having some particular width. This circuit ...

A career in robotics is one of the most coveted things for those interested in engineering and automation. Presently, there is an explosion in the number of companies seeking innovative robotics ...

First introduced in 2002, The iRobot Roomba was conceived as a robotic vacuum cleaner. Just about every hacker, maker, and engineer out there immediately wanted one. The Roomba proved to be more than ...

The old song tells us that the leg bone is connected to the hip bone, but how are we to know if the articulated cam can connect to the brushless motor? There are, sadly, no songs designed to tell us ...

Typically, when we want to tell a robot where to go, we either pre-program a route or drive it around with some kind of gamepad or joystick controller. [Robotcus] decided to build a simple robot ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...