Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute offer a do-it-yourself kit and online instructions -- in 15 steps, you've got a Palm Pilot robot.

The iRobot Braava is a mopping robot that uses simple design principles to make it affordable and effective. We teardown the robot to learn its design and manufacturing secrets.

Robot sumo is not as easy as it looks. The robots need to push their opponent out of the ring, so they are equipped with a host of sensors. The main challenge is their autonomy—they are not ...

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… ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just … ...

The best robot vacuum cleaners, according to our testers, include models by Dyson, Shark, and Eufy. Each vacuum was rated on ...

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.

Sadly, it is the future, and that’s not quite the way things turned out. But at least there are a bunch of simple robots that could do some of your day-to-day chores for you.