In previous Robot Archaeology articles, we’ve found the origins of the original Turtle robot and Logo back from MIT around 1970. There have been a number of drawbots since. This article focuses on fairly current bots.

A drawing robot is one that uses a pen and possibly wheels to move and draw things. This can be simple or very complex:

We’ve looked around the Interwebs and found these drawbots:

• The CheapDrawBot
• The Hi 2016
• The TRS Drawbot
• The Robot Arm (with Arduin0)
• Plot Drawing Machine from Tinkercrate
• Time Plotting Robots: with Marker, Sand, and Laser
• Build a turtlebot
• Spirograph Robot
• Disney Beach Robot
• Sparki robot with gripper
• Mirobot on Kickstarter
• MURtle (turtlebot)
• PenBot 1.2
• The Root drawbot

The new Adafruit CRICKIT robotics platform can help build creative robotics including drawbots.

Do you have some ideas on Drawbots? Post in the comments!