This 901-piece robot building kit is over half off It could make a great gift for a STEM-obsessed student.

The blocklike Jimu building pieces aren't as versatile as Legos, and they feel a little clunky, but they come together to build a capable robot.

How about building your own International Space Station, space rover, and even astronauts? The Ciro solar-powered robot kits allow you to do just that.

The first of these sets is the Ciro 12-in-1 solar-powered robot kit is a robot-building STEM kit with 190 pieces that allow you to create up to 12 different types of robots.

Folks have been using the popular Arduino DIY computing platform to build robots and all sorts of other simple computing devices for a while. Arduino boards are inexpensive and relatively easy to ...

The Lego Mindstorms kit, which first appeared in 1998, lets you design and build a wide variety of robots. The new Mindstorm NXT, due out Aug. 1, is a complete revamp that makes it even easier to ...

In this video, we take you on a fascinating journey into the world of robotics with the "Create Your Own Robot Spider" guide, ...

If robots are going to take over the world someday, then it's best to learn how to build and control them as early as now. This kit will have you building Sloth, a robot with two legs you can ...

Last month, we predicted that baby robots might be on their way after the BrickPi Kickstarter was successfully funded. We never expected them to be quite this cute, though.

Now, a Shenzhen-based startup called Makeblock has raised $30 million in Series B venture funding to serve all those parents with programmable robots, and robot-building kits for kids and teens.

Research at Purdue University funded through a National Science Foundation grant has led to development of a new kind of toy-building kit that allows children to create robots and control them ...