Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Check out this cool Lego robot that can draw pictures. The Lego Mindstorms NXT Drawing Robot was created by Daniele Benedettelli. A picture is imported into your PC and then converted from a picture ...

Sensors allow robots to be aware of their surroundings and react dynamically to changes, says Mark J Donovan of AMS. The classic image of the robot in a factory is a vast arm stretching to perform ...

Bringing women into technical education at times seems to be an insurmountable challenge. As a counter, a small drawing robot created by [MakersBox] might help. The robot was used in a ChickTech ...

Children already spend a lot of time looking at screens, so if they can be taught to draw using a physical pen and paper, so much the better. That's the thinking behind DrawBo, a wall-mounted robot ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

The robots are here, zipping across the Colorado State University campus as students, faculty and staff pull out their cell phones to snap pictures and video clips. Depending on where they’re standing ...

Makers and hobbyists that enjoy building electronic projects may be interested in this pocket sized open source CMC 3-axis drawing robot called the Piccolo that can draw pictures up to 50mm square.

New York: American artist Barnaby Furnas has turned to a custom-made robot to help him with paintings that can sell for more than $100,000 at New York galleries. Furnas and several artists are using ...