We wish you all a very happy holidays filled with love, joy and robots…lots of robots.

If you need a last minute robotic gift for someone, you can quickly put together this holiday paper-craft robot below. You could also go crazy and add some LEDs in order to make it even more robotic.

This papercraft model comes from Toyshop Greetings.

This is a nice video from a while ago describing how to quickly and cheaply put together a robot by using an old RC toy, an Arduino (actually a Seeeduino), a Ping distance sensor and a couple of other components.

More in-depth videos of the construction below.

We are eager to see our readers go crazy and build their own robots from old toys.

Via DinoFab.

The Neato XV-11 has been hacked! Hooray!

Now, every hobbyist has access to a (relatively) cheap and fairly accurate LiDAR. This kind of technology usually sells for several thousands of dollar and now is available for the price of a robotic vacuum cleaner (and it includes the vacuum cleaner in the price )

Hash79 successfully hacked the Neato XV-11 by adapting the code produce by Xevel and chenglung and was able to get useful  readouts from the LiDAR. Kudos to you guys, we hope you enjoy your bounty and the free vacuum.

For those of you wanting to get your hands on the code and hack the XV-11, simply visit the gitHub project page.

Via RobotShop Blog.