Take a behind-the-scenes look at building and improving an animatronic robot head. From mechanics to movement, see how ...

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).

It takes building a few not very good robots to learn how to build better ones. You’ve got to be hands on and trying things. If it doesn’t work, always find out why at all costs, and then fix it.

Check out Pulte’s video of their construction robot at work. For more details on PulteGroup’s construction initiatives and technologies, visit their website here.

You trust robots more if you’re allowed to build them yourself, research suggests It turns out if you want people to get invested in robots you need to let them get hands-on.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...