For some kids, there's not thing cooler than seeing robots and machines moving on their own. Actually, some might find it even cooler to be the ones to build those robots and tell them what do. LEGO's ...

Pour one out for Lego's impressively capable DIY robots, which will be powering down at the end of the year. reading time 3 minutes The programming’s been on the wall for a while, but yesterday, as ...

The internet has given us plenty of cool robotics projects, but we don’t think we’ve seen one zipline before. At least not until now. This cool little ziplining robot is courtesy of the folks over at ...

In October, a student presented a robotic hand made entirely from LEGOs at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China. But Jared Lepora isn’t in ...

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Makeblocks, a company known for kid-friendly robotics and DIY hovercraft-drones, is launching a new gadget-building platform called Neuron. It's like Lego meets Littlebits-- you get over 30 blocks ...

Now Sphero, a Boulder-based robotics company best known for its rolling robot toys that enhance STEAM skills, including a pretty nifty BB-8 droid, is out with a new DIY robotics platform of its own.

DIY micro-robotics is having a moment. The latest project to take the crowdfunding route — via Kickstarter — to build out a platform for playing around with robotics is called BrickPi. As its name ...

Vienna University of Technology professor Peter Purgathofer has devised a way to scan Kindle e-books using nothing more than Lego Mindstorms and cloud-based software for optical character recognition, ...

KRAKOW, POLAND - It's a revolution in robotics that makes building your own personal robot a reality for the masses. The new device developed by Polish scientists Dominik Nowak and Radoslaw Jarema of ...