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There’s a long running joke that kids would rather play with the cardboard box than the toy inside. And that’s especially true if that cardboard can then be transformed into an articulated 20 ...
HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, lets children (or anyone else) build robots with cardboard, velcro, and other cheap, easily available materials.
Smartibots, a robotics platform engineered around foldable cardboard, launched on Kickstarter in late June. It's projected to ship by the end of 2018.
Now, anyone can be a robotics designer with CardBoardiZer — a new computerized system that lets beginners turn static three-dimensional objects into their own moving robot.
DARPA was quickly humbled. Scharre writes that all eight Marines were able to defeat the robot using techniques that could have come straight out of a Looney Tunes episode.
Who would have thought Metal Gear Solid was a documentary about fighting robots?  A group of US Marines evaded detection by an AI robot using a cardboard box according to a new book. The book ...
Until recently, you might have added "cardboard robot" to the list. But a project called Kinetic Creatures on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter shows that it's a perfect combination.
ZURI is a programmable robot kit with a dozen different design variations.
The Ganzbot is a cardboard robot built with an Arduino Decima that can read incoming Twitter feeds and show emotions as it reads them out loud—like happiness when you tweet you a got date, or ...