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Devil-Botz team designs soccer star robot

A soccer-loving robot is being designed by Burlington High School Devil-Botz Team to compete in the FIRST Regional Robotic Competition on March 26-27 at Boston University’s Agganis Arena.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen, and is an annual competition that is free and open to the public. [...]

A robot kit from another planet: Revell Vexplorer Robotics System

We love toys, we love robots, we love technostuff that moves and so on.
But this is another thing.
It’s the Revell Vexplorer!
Revell Vexplorer is the ideal robot kit for the novice builder. Complete with detailed step-by-step plans, this almost-ready-to-run kit comes with pre-assembled modules making it quick and easy to build. Best of all, your robot [...]

Japanese Robot Powered By iPod touch

This intrepid young lad has fashioned himself a robot that’s powered by an iPod touch, his incessant prodding, and some light but strangely out of place background music.
As you’ll see in the video, the touch interface controls the arms and legs, and even turns the head from side-to-side. It’s kind of a dumb robot though, [...]

How to make a cockroach robot [video]

Full instructions provided (but batteries not included!)
Here’s an easy robot made out of the parts that you can find in an RC(remote control)car or in any eletronics´ store if you want it to go slower then just take of the wheels … (works better if you the tape or heat-shrink-tubing on the iron bars or [...]