advertisement 11-03-2014 WANTED Make Your Own Cardboard Robot ZURI is a programmable robot kit with a dozen different design variations.

HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, lets children (or anyone else) build robots with cardboard, velcro, and other cheap, easily available materials.

Smartibots, a robotics platform engineered around foldable cardboard, launched on Kickstarter in late June. It's projected to ship by the end of 2018.

Until recently, you might have added "cardboard robot" to the list. But a project called Kinetic Creatures on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter shows that it's a perfect combination.

The Ganzbot is a cardboard robot built with an Arduino Decima that can read incoming Twitter feeds and show emotions as it reads them out loud—like happiness when you tweet you a got date, or ...