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The finished Art Bot standing on a sheet covered in overlapping loops of red, blue and green ink, with its box and instruction manual on the classroom desk behind it.
A girl at a classroom table reaching out to her Art Bot as it scribbles blue and red loops across a sheet of paper.
Everything in the Art Bot kit laid out on a desk: the laser-cut plywood board, the motor, a wired battery case, two AA batteries, three markers, screws and nuts, zip ties, rubber bands, two adhesive eyes, a Phillips screwdriver and sheets of drawing paper.
The eight-page Art Bot instruction manual, one copy closed and another open to the Mars rover background page and the first three build steps.
The Art Bot box: STEM Education Series, Build It Yourself, ages 10 and up, with badges for critical thinking, circuitry, engineering and technology.

STEM Education Series

Art Bot Kit

$10.00

Build a wooden robot that makes its own art. A motor set off balance makes the robot shake, and the markers on its legs turn that motion into loops and spirals. Move the weight, shorten a leg, or swap a marker and watch the drawing change. Small changes to a machine make big changes in what it produces, which is the same idea engineers test when they design robots and rovers.

Amount
Amount: Individual

The Big Idea

Engineers design robots to complete specific jobs.

Ages
10+Adult supervision required.
  • Critical Thinking
  • Circuitry
  • Engineering
  • Technology

Safety

  • Contains small parts. Not suitable for children under 4.
  • Adult supervision required
The assembled Art Bot: a plywood disc on three legs, a colored marker banded to each leg, two large googly eyes and the motor and battery pack on top.

What’s in the Kit

  • All materials to build one Art Bot
  • Full color, step-by-step instructions

What you add

  • Nothing. Everything is included.

Real-world connection

Why a Robot That Draws?

NASA uses robots such as orbiters, landers, and rovers to explore Mars and other hard-to-reach places. These robots collect data and help prepare for future human missions. Each one is designed with a specific structure and energy source so it can complete tasks where humans cannot go. Rovers, for example, are built to move across rough planetary surfaces.

Art Bot works the same way on a smaller scale. A motor powers it, and its shape decides how it moves and what it draws. Change the shape and you change what it does, which is the heart of mechanical design. Every adjustment turns into a brand-new drawing.

NASA's Hedgehog robot: a cube with blunt spikes at each corner and gold foil panels, sitting on rocky reddish ground at sunset.
Six children leaning over a classroom table where nine assembled Art Bots each scribble loops onto their own sheet of paper, the kit box and instruction manual beside them.

For classrooms

Each kit builds one Art Bot. Every kit arrives individually packaged with all materials and instructions included, so every student opens a complete kit ready to build.

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