National Instruments offers intuitive design tools for everything from designing autonomous vehicles to teaching robotics design principals.

Technical tutorials in this white paper explain how to use LabVIEW and NI hardware to design and prototype a variety of robotics applications.

Also, an applications note from National Instruments explains how a functional prototype is vital to robots in order to know how a robot will respond to different situations prior to production.

In a recent special digital issue Steve Bitton of UBM TechInsights dissected a robot and looked at what made it tick.

Got an idea for doing a teardown of your favorite robot? Send us a line to Nicolas Mokhoff.

Watch for the upcoming EE Times' digital edition on Robotics coming at the end of March, where robots like those from Mindstorms will be discussed.