Imagine building your very own robot using just colorful paper and simple tools! PaBo Bot is a fun, hands-on kit that lets anyone become a robot creator. With easy-to-use modules that snap together, ...

If you like what you see, the robot will then begin to draw your portrait on a piece of paper. It does this using two human-like arms which are made from aluminium and driven by two stepper motors.

Now robotics engineers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have created a janken robot that wins every time (if you didn’t know, janken is the Japanese name for rock-paper-scissors).

Computers have taken on humans in games before, but Mark Rober’s new robot takes competition to another level, claiming an ...