Take a behind-the-scenes look at building and improving an animatronic robot head. From mechanics to movement, see how ...

One example of such an accident is the house-cleaning robot that, in its single-minded pursuit of cleanliness, destroys objects, such as a vase, which obstruct its goal.

It takes building a few not very good robots to learn how to build better ones. You’ve got to be hands on and trying things. If it doesn’t work, always find out why at all costs, and then fix it.

You trust robots more if you’re allowed to build them yourself, research suggests It turns out if you want people to get invested in robots you need to let them get hands-on.

Because all the sorting is done properly at home, recycling centers shouldn’t have to spend money on workers to separate various materials. The Lasso should clean all of the materials as well ...

The Shonkbot is what the team at Bristol Hackspace came up with for a robot that is obvious in its working and encouragingly easy to build, even for kids (with supervision).