HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, lets children (or anyone else) build robots with cardboard, velcro, and other cheap, easily available materials.

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Smartibot is the world’s first cardboard robot that can think for itself. We’ve been talking to the man behind it to find out how you’ll be able to assemble your own. Smartibot is a robot kit with a ...

Some combinations of material and machine just don't sound right, such as a wooden airplane the size of a jetliner (the Spruce Goose) or an airship full of extremely flammable gas (the Hindenburg).

Fighting robots are even more awesome than regular robots. But it’s hard for us to imagine tossing all that money (not to mention blood, sweat and tears) into a bot and then watching it get shredded.

In honor of GeekDad UnWired Week, I decided to re-create the GeekDad logo banner with actual robots ... made of cardboard. So, on one of the hottest days of the summer (I think it hit about 103) I ...

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