A Survey on Commercial Starter Kits for Building Real Robots

Many starter kits are commercially available now to assist robots’ hobbyists in designing, building, and programming working robots. This paper serves as a critical survey paper that describes the available robotics kits. This survey addresses issues such as modularity, reusability of the building blocks, versatility, price, etc. The paper pretends to shed some light to researchers and hobbyist on the possibility of building real robots with low-cost market available starter kits.