An Arduino-based robot for people who don’t know how to build robots "Sparki" ideal for teaching kids (or adults) how to program robots.

Fighting fire with robots may take jobs away from humans, but it can also save lives. [Mell Bell Electronics] has built a (supervised) kid-friendly version of a firefighting robot that extinguishes… ...

It’s a radio controlled robot with an Arduino Uno for the brains. A couple of motor driver boards are used to run four windscreen wiper motors for propulsion.

Do you have a favorite Raspberry Pi or Arduino-powered robot? Choices abound; the inexpensive microcontrollers hastening the Internet of Things blitz have served as the brains of thousands of ...

London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a remote controlled robot called the RK-1 that ...

Japanese researchers developed a robot made of a hose that can spray water. The 'snake robot' can crawl through windows or other gaps in a structure.

The firefighting robot is the brainchild of four students of the electrical department and the prototype covers design and construction of a robot that is able to sense and extinguish fire.

But within just a couple of months, robots like these will be deployed to fight fires in the U.S. At least, that's the hope of Maine-based manufacturers Howe and Howe Technologies.

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a fire-fighting robot. "Fires have an unfortunate habit of happening in places ...