Poppy, an open-source humanoid robot
Poppy project open source robot debuts from France: Poppy is an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Designed by the Flowers Lab at Inria...
View ArticleAutopilot MEMs robot
Arduino compass bearing following robot: When you don’t want to drive your robot wouldn’t it be nice to just point in a direction and have it go there? Well the issue is that every little bump and...
View ArticleAutonomous iPad playing robot
Tom Randle made this robot that automatically plays Leap Sheep on the iPad: On a complete whim about 2 years ago, I decided to make a robot to autonomously play one of my favourite iPhone games: Leap...
View ArticleKMel Robotics flying robots play instruments
KMel Robotics flying robots that can play instruments: Just a reminder about how this all works: each one of these robots has its position measured down to the millimeter (or better) at a very high...
View ArticleBipedal walking sentinel project
A bipedal walking robot by Ye Guan: The robot will have a complete compliment of sensors to help it understand its surrounding and its own condition. The current design uses a total of seven sensors....
View ArticleWireless controlled robotic hand
Gabry295 wrote this Instructable detailing the build of his wireless controlled robotic hand: It consists in an artificial hand controlled by a glove with flex sensors. The artificial hand reproduces...
View ArticleIntroducing Bo & Yana – robots helping kids learn to code
Two of the guys working on this pass through Shenzhen regularly, no end to the cool stuff going on around here: Play possibilities are endless A pusher bar to clean up your room, or an arm to present...
View ArticleMorpHex MKIII, the transforming robot
Here’s a cool hexapod robot that transforms into a ball shape – the MorpHex by Kåre Halvorsen: I’ve done a lot of work on MorpHex lately, both on hardware and software. The two major updates; 24...
View ArticleBeer Pong robot
Here’s a cool VERSABALL Beer Pong robot by Empire Robotics: The core principle behind VERSABALL is the jamming phase transition of granular materials. The green ball is filled with a sand like...
View Article3D printable robot arm
Andreas Hölldorfer of ChaozLabs has written up documentation on his 3D printable robot arm: It is inspired by well known industrial robots but 3D printed. The overall goal is to build a nearly...
View ArticleDirtyPCB Pico-Kubik quadruped robot
Pico-Kubik, the tinniest quadruped robot with Micropython on board by Radomir Dopieralski: This is the fourth quadruped that I’m building, after Kubik, µKubik, and Nano-Kubik. This one literally fits...
View ArticleSoldering robot – Head assembly
Brian Dorey published a new build, a soldering robot project: We have finished the soldering iron element slider system and stepper mount for the new soldering robot project. The soldering iron...
View ArticleFoobot, a robot table football game
Steve of mooplog has been working on a robot table football game called Foobot: My DIY robot table football game, using some super cheap 433mhz radio modules, some AVR microcontrollers (attiny2313 and...
View ArticleDIY soldering robot
Here’s Brian Dorey’s completed project the DIY soldering robot project. We wrote about it previously: The DIY soldering robot which we have been building in our spare time over the past few months is...
View ArticleMiniature machine controlled by heat and electromagnetic fields: TermiNature
A Miniature Origami Robot by MIT and TU Munich researchers: The unfolded robot, which is made of a magnet and PVC sandwiched between laser-cut structural layers (polystyrene or paper), weighs just...
View ArticleInLinea01: A PID controlled line following robot build on an ATmega 8
Davide Gironi made a PID controlled line following robot: InLinea01 is a simple PID controlled line following robot. This is not speed oriented line follower, this is just a prototype I built to...
View ArticleMatchbox car
Shane has been working on making small robots and made a prototype of a matchbox car, a robot car that fits inside a matchbox: This build consists of a tiny DC motors ripped from a pair of 9g servos,...
View ArticleMearm forked
Bajdi’s self designed version of the mearm using 3 stepper motors: Since I was not very happy with the original design I decided to make my own version. Goal was to make it much simpler to print, less...
View ArticleWindows 10 IoT core controlling a Raspberry Pi 2 robot
Windows 10 IoT Core running a Raspberry Pi 2 robot by Scott Hanselman: Starting with a Raspberry Pi 2, walk through the setup instructions here. You do need to have a Windows 10 today to installing...
View ArticleJumping robot leg
Ben Katz documented his robotic leg project: Here are the python scripts that send serial commands to the motor controllers. Here are the eagle files, gerbers, and BOM for the motor controllers and...
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