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).

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to un… ...

Robots have a skeletal system made up of links and joints. The links are the rigid pieces, kind of like bones, that form the robot’s structure. They can be made from various materials, often metals ...

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.

Neil Tyler talks to Daniel Camilleri, founder and chief executive of BOW, a spinout that has developed a single software solution that can control any robot.

That is why some in the current breed of humanoid robots, like Digit and Atlas, use simple geometric-shaped heads. To be widely used, such robots also need to match the dexterity and versatility ...

Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire [UK] asked volunteers to play with the simple reactive robot. The same robot was then programmed with an algorithm to make it playful and curious, and ...