If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

Smartibots, a robotics platform engineered around foldable cardboard, launched on Kickstarter in late June. It's projected to ship by the end of 2018.

Smartibot is the world’s first cardboard robot that can think for itself. We’ve been talking to the man behind it to find out how you’ll be able to assemble your own.

Users can bypass the cardboard kit build and hack battery-operated toys, radio-controlled vehicles and so on to create their own telepresence bot.

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.

advertisement 11-03-2014 WANTED Make Your Own Cardboard Robot ZURI is a programmable robot kit with a dozen different design variations.

If you’re interested in replicating any of this yourself, have a look at their official rules and be sure to watch this full build-log of the winning robot. (It’s fun to watch him repeatedly ...