Returning to family activities, you can make a homemade robot, with which you can use recycled household materials and glue.

The news: Alphabet X, the company’s early research and development division, has unveiled the Everyday Robot project, whose aim is to develop a “general-purpose learning robot.” The idea is ...

5. The Cardboard Tweenbot In 2008, New Yorker Kacie Kinzer created a cute cardboard “robot” that was half art project, half social experiment.

But students still have to construct a functioning robot. At Sylacauga High School, for example, as many as 20 students are taking part in the project, said Paul Lynch, a teacher there.