In the 1980s, there was Armatron. It was the robotic arm toy offered by Tandy electronics that started it all. Today, it’s a whole new world. You can control robotic arm kits with an Arduino, ...

Here’s a fun geek toy, a miniature version of an industrial robot arm for your desk, the Edge Robotic Arm Kit. This fun miniature robot arm comes in the form of a kit that you build yourself, and it ...

Seeed Studio's Amazing Hand is an open-source, 3D-printable robotic hand kit with eight degrees of freedom (8-DOF), designed ...

I just want to flag this one, an arm aimed at students: the Braccio ++ kit, for an introduction to robotics, letting you lift, place, twist objects under digital control... Braccio means arm in ...

A new open source robotic arm has this week launched over on Kickstarter called the Dobot, providing an Arduino powered high quality 4-axis parallel-mechanism robot arm. Dobot has been created by a ...

A set of helping hands is a nice tool to have around the shop, especially if soldering or gluing small components is a common task. What we all really want, though, is a robotic arm. Sure, it could ...

In something out of Black Mirror meets Queen's Gambit, a chess robot accidentally broke a child's finger during an exhibition in Moscow. Normally when I miss breakfast, it's by choice. Today, it was ...

While we usually see robotics applied to industrial or research applications, there are plenty of ways they could help in everyday life as well: an autonomous guide for blind people, for instance, or ...