As a bonus, it’s easy to swap out the pen, so multicolored designs can be drawn in multiple passes. We’ve seen other robot drawing builds before, too, like this capable portrait artist.

Children already spend a lot of time looking at screens, so if they can be taught to draw using a physical pen and paper, so much the better. That's the thinking behind DrawBo, a wall-mounted ...

The robotic turtle above can't wield katanas, eat pizza or shout cowabunga, but it can still do something awesome: draw big sand sketches on the beach. It's named "Beachbot" and was developed by a ...