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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...

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Autopilot 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...

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Autonomous 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...

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KMel 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...

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Bipedal 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....

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Wireless 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...

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Introducing 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...

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MorpHex 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...

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Beer 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...

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3D 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...

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DirtyPCB 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...

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Soldering 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...

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Foobot, 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...

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DIY 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...

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Miniature 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...

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InLinea01: 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...

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Matchbox 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,...

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Mearm 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...

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Windows 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...

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Jumping 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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