For readers aged 5-8, this Dragonlark gamebook pack is all about exploration and adventure with your wacky robot friend, Gus. Contains 3 books from the Dragonlarks series: Your Very Own Robot by R. A. Montgomery: Using your scientist parents robot junk, you build your own robot. Gus, your quirky robot, steams when he should sing, shoots up into space without warning, and lands himself in a tank of strawberry ice cream! Your Very Own Robot Goes Cuckoo-Bananas! by R. A. Montgomery: Gus is your very own robot, and your best friend. Your parents tell you that if he gets into trouble one more time, he s going in the trash! You and Gus are left alone one afternoon, and before long he disappears. You ve got to find your robot before he ends up at the dump! Gus Vs. The Robot King by R. A. Montgomery: There is civil unrest in the robot news and your robot's cousin is in the middle of it. You set out to help! You'll fly over the moon in a hovercraft, discover the secret powers of jellyfish, and save the oceans and the WORLD from the threat of an ice cream sundae shortage. 240 total pages, full-color art, 32 total endings

This third-grade pack includes A Robotics Mission (fiction) and Awesome Space Robots (nonfiction), along with a parents' guide and activity sheets. The fiction title features an Adventure in Makerspace with Cyrus and his friends. When the kids join Ms. Gillian, the Specialist, on another project, they soon find themselves on Mars. Can they build a Mars rover of their own? Join them to complete Mission: Robotics! The nonfiction title reveals how robots are making space much less mysterious. Robots and robotic probes have been exploring the planets and helping astronauts do research since the 1970s. Readers will learn about incredible space robots and the amazing things that they have discovered about our solar system.

The book ‘BiLBIQ: A biologically inspired Robot with walking and rolling locomotion’ deals with implementing a locomotion behavior observed in the biological archetype Cebrennus villosus to a robot prototype whose structural design needs to be developed. The biological sample is investigated as far as possible and compared to other evolutional solutions within the framework of nature’s inventions. Current achievements in robotics are examined and evaluated for their relation and relevance to the robot prototype in question. An overview of what is state of the art in actuation ensures the choice of the hardware available and most suitable for this project. Through a constant consideration of the achievement of two fundamentally different ways of locomotion with one and the same structure, a robot design is developed and constructed taking hardware constraints into account. The development of a special leg structure that needs to resemble and replace body elements of the biological archetype is a special challenge to be dealt with. Finally a robot prototype was achieved, which is able to walk and roll - inspired by the spider Cebrennus villosus.

This book gives a step-by-step introduction to designing and building your own robots. As with other books in the Arduino series, the book begins with a quick overview of the Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used to write sketches, and the hardware systems aboard the Arduino UNO R3 and the Mega 2560 Rev 3. The level of the text makes it accessible for students, hobbyist and professionals' first introduction to both Arduino and Robotics. This book will be accessible by all levels of students, advanced hobbyists and engineering professionals, whether using as a self-reference or within a structure design laboratory. The text then examines the many concepts and characteristics common to all robots. In addition, throughout the book , reasonably priced, easily accessible and available off-the-shelf robots are examined. Examples include wheeled robots, tracked robots and also a robotic arm. After a thorough and easy to follow Arduino IDE and hardware introduction, the book launches into “do it yourself” or DIY concepts. A unique feature of the book is to start with a hands-on introduction to low cost 3D printing. These concepts will allow you to design and print your own custom robot parts and chassis. We then explore concepts to sense a robot's environment, move the robot about and provide a portable power source. We conclude with a several DIY robot projects.

This second-grade pack includes The Runaway Robot (fiction) and My First Guide to Robotics (nonfiction), along with a parents' guide and activity sheets. The fiction title features the popular character Superhero Harry, who builds a super robot and programs it to do some of his household chores. But when Harry brings his robot to school, things don't go exactly as planned. The nonfiction title introduces kids to the robots that fill our world. Readers get an up-close look at the history of robots, industrial robots, robot competitions, and how robots work.