Makers and electronic enthusiasts looking for a new project to keep them busy this weekend might be interested in this excellent Arduino-controlled robotic arm. This innovative project is capable of ...

A new open source robotic arm has this week launched over on Kickstarter called the Dobot, providing an Arduino powered high quality 4-axis parallel-mechanism robot arm. Dobot has been created by a ...

Here at Hackaday we’ve covered a bunch of DIY laser diode projects. And for good reason, they are just cool. We’ve seen people add lasers to their 3D printers, stick one in a milling machine, use a ...

Last fall, I grabbed a robot arm from Robot Geeks when they were on sale at Thanksgiving. The arm uses servos to rotate the base and move the joints and gripper. These work well enough but I found one ...

Need a helping hand? Well look no further — the uArm is a desktop robot that can act as your personal assistant … kind of. As a smaller, sleeker version of the company’s original arm, the uArm Swift ...

Sign language translators are scarce. If you're hearing impaired, that's a huge problem. Three engineering students from the University of Antwerp have novel solution: Cheap 3D printed humanoids that ...

Industrial arm robots have been around for years, but similar technology is only just starting to trickle down to the consumer market. That is where Kickstarter project Niryo One enters the frame.

Having hands is pretty damn great, you know. Most of us take it for granted just about every day. Armed with the right tool, your hands can do just about anything. That’s the idea behind Carbon ...

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While we usually see robotics applied to industrial or research applications, there are plenty of ways they could help in everyday life as well: an autonomous guide for blind people, for instance, or ...