If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

Creating your own human-following robot using a Kinect and Raspberry Pi involves several steps, but the detailed instructions provided by Team Turtle Rover make the process manageable.

San Francisco-based Figure has developed an AI humanoid robot that can walk, talk and Interact. It learned how to brew a pot of coffee by watching videos.

When it was paired with a human player that it was supposed to empower as well as itself, we observed that the virtual robot would keep a certain distance so as not to block the human’s movement.

He joins us to explain how a standardized robot could help accelerate research. The following transcript was created by a compuer and edited by a volunteer: ...