Robotics

Books about robotics, control electronics, Lego Mindstorm, and electronics resources for building your very own robotics projects.

A nice selection of robots and robotic kits for all skill levels, from beginner to advanced. Great prices & excellent customer service.

Arrick Robotics manufactures mobile robots, stepper motor systems, XY positioning tables, automation accessories, and more. Their site contains an excellent links page.

An exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.

GoRobotics.net is your premier source for amateur robotics info, with projects, news, link, books, resources, and more! High points include the product supplier search engine and the resource section, where you can take a look at the robotic FAQ, microcontroller FAQ, or Basic Stamp FAQ.

Learn about the incredibly popular LEGO MINDSTORMS series of products that let you build and program robots that do what you want. Buy the Mindstorm products, get the technical low-down on the Mindstorms internals, communicate with other enthusiasts, and much more.

A design for an easy-to-build, fully autonomous robot controlled by a Palm handheld computer. The site contains a parts list, assembly instructions, photos, and software source code.

A website about robotics and electronics. The site features robotics information, schematics, electronics projects, and full plans to the robots the author created (including SmallBot).

Robotics news, tutorials, and discussion forums, as well as links to robot kits, competitions, companies, hobby clubs, hardware, software, universities, and movies. Learn how to build robots, discover more about artificial intelligence, read about mobile robots, or enter robot comppetitions. An awesome site!

This site focusses on robotics books, with reviews of all the best. It also features information on robot kits, robot movies, and toy robots. Learn to build robots for competitions, for industry, or just for fun.

Robot Kits Direct makes kits for use in science educational centers, the classroom, in science clubs, and to satisfy the curiosity of young scientists in the home. There are three levels of kits challenging kit builders from grade school to adult, all of which demonstrate the principles of robotics in a most enjoyable fashion.

Mondo-tronics' Robot Store features robot kits, books, parts, muscle wires, shape memory alloys (SMA's), electronics, software, and much more. Great gifts for the hobbiest, student, or experimenter.

Robots.net is the oldest social networking site for roboticists and the most widely read robot news portal on the web.

A very active hobby robotics group in Minnesota. Projects, discussions and resources for robotics, as well as an email discussion list and weekly meeting photographs.