The robot arm is controlled using a touchscreen application loaded onto an old smartphone hose inside a control box, making the design of the robotic arm completely self-contained.

Arduino has already made it easier to build your own electronics projects. Now, the microcontroller board maker to entering the robotics market with what it calls the first official Arduino on wheels.

French designer Paul Ferragut has built a robot that throws a bunch of dots on canvas and calls it art. (That’s also known as the entire career of Georges Seurat.) The Arduino-controlled Time ...