USA Robot Stores

Abe Howell's Robotics
Abraham L. Howell, the founder of Abe Howell's Robotics, started the website to help satisfy the need for low cost educational robots.

Acroname
Provides kits, sensors, controllers, books, batteries, and Lego items. Also has an active forum, several articles and "How To" guide.

Arrick Robotics
Stepper motor, Positioning, Automation, Mobile Robots, and one of the largest Resources section for robotics.

A-WIT Technologies, Inc.
C programmable stamps, servo motors, BOL-BOT Kit, and other robotic components.

BaneBots
Hubs, Electronic Speed controls, Gears and some of the nicest wheels for Robot projects.

Budget Robotics
Robot Kits, robotics kits, robot parts, educational robots, amateur robots. The purpose of this family-run business is to provide low-cost parts and kits to the amateur robot builder. Their emphasis is on affordability.

Dr Robot Inc
Build robots, robot kits, motor driver, servo controller, sensors, Dr Robot developes technologies related to robotic toys, consumer robotic devices, and high-level interactive tools.

DC Drive
Driveswarehouse stocks a wide variety of AC Motors and DC Motors. All products from Driveswarehouse are backed up 12 months warranty and tech. support by a company that has been in drives business over 45 years.

Electronic Kits
Offers a wide range of Educational Electronic Kits, Robotic Kits, and Hobby Projects.

Element Direct
Offers several accessories for the iRobot Create including the BAM (Bluetooth Adapter Module) which provides a virtual serial port connection between the PC and the Create.

Endurance R/C
Provides an 8 Servo Controller and the PCTx - a device to control an R/C model or Robot from your Windows PC via the existing radio system!

HobbyEngineering
A supply store for people who want to build robots, electronic gadgets, kinetic art or anything else that moves, beeps or flashes

IMAGES Scientific Instruments
Information and supplies for science fair projects regarding physics, computers, electronics and robotics. Featuring: electronics, robotics, speech recognition, geiger counters, ecoSpheres, nitinol, sma, pic, microcontrollers, picbasic, picbasic pro, and more.

IMRobotics Inc
IMRobotics focus is to provide a variety of hardware, software and development tools to help you get started in robotics. To those looking for complete development platforms, IMRobotics has partnered with leading robotics manufactures to make their products available or they can design and build custom hardware or applications to meet your unique situation.

Inspector Bots
Distributes inspection robots that are remotely operated, electric vehicles designed to go where it is difficult, dangerous, hazardous, lethal, toxic or just too hostile for humans to go. They are rugged, wireless, remotely controlled multi-function platforms which can be configured for a variety of applications.

Jameco
Electronic components distributor with great prices offering semiconductors, passives, interconnects, electromechanical , power sources, specialty products. Has a nice section for Robotics that includes Motor/Servo Controllers, Sensors, Batteries, etc.

KITS USA
Educational sales has been their business for the past 26 years. Kits USA has built a reputation as a leading discount distributor of educational kits.

Lynxmotion
A nice selection of intelligently designed, precision engineered robot kits and components.

MarkIII Robot Store
Distributes the Mark III robot whose hardware design, including schematics and PCB layout are Copyright (C) 2002 Portland Area Robotics Society (the PARTS robot club).

Microbric
Microbric is an electronic construction set based upon the construction style/concept of both Lego® and Meccano®. Microbric allows users to build complex customised electronic devices with little or no prior electronics knowledge.

Micromagic Systems
Find news and info on the latest creations from the lab of Micromagic Systems (animatronic film company), as well as a fully-functioning e-store where you can buy kits, electronics and parts to realize your own designs and builds.

Medonis
Servo Control and Power Electronics Products for robot heads, walking robots, and sumo robots.

mindsensors.com
mindsensors.com is a designer and makersof custom sensors, multiplexers and several devices for hobby robotics. They offer many enhancements to the Lego NXT platform including the NXTServo and the NXTCam.

Parallax
The store for Basic Stamp's and servo control hardware.

Phidgets
Phidgets are an easy to use set of building blocks for low cost sensing and control from your PC using the Universal Serial Bus (USB) as the basis for all Phidgets.

Pololu
Robot kits, robot parts, and robot electronics. Shipping is free for U.S. orders over $25.

ReallyCoolToys.com
Exclusive distributor for RCRover line of RFO and DIY man portable robots and unmanned ground vehicles in addition to a variety of exclusive and intelligent toys, small, medium, and large robotics platforms. Software customization is available from RCRover®.

RoadNarrows
RoadNarrows Robotics™ is the primary business of RoadNarrows LLC, a Colorado, U.S.A. based company. RoadNarrows specializes in robotics for the research and education markets. They sell and provide technical support for some of the most popular robotic product lines accepted by the academic community.

Robe:Do Robotics
Custom built, assembled and tested robots; plus a mashup of accessories.

Roboporium
Roboporium is an online community for bipedal robot kits, tracked robots and robotics accessories. The company also hosts a fledgling educational robotics initiative called Robot P.E.T.S. (Robots Promoting Education Through Science), which is sponsored by their parent company, KumoTek Robotics. Roboporium strives to promote education in science and engineering through robotics at the primary and secondary school level.

Robot Add-Ons
Robot Add-ons founded by iRobot alumni offers enhancements and accessories for consumer appliance robots such as the iRobot Roomba and Scooba. Their patented products include HPEA filters, soft bumpers, Swiffer like pads, etc... all designed to improve the performance of the robot.

RobotBooks.com
A large selection of robotics books, robot toys, movies, educational toys, magazines, motors, and robot kits

RoboteQ.com
Roboteq’s mission is to develop products and technologies that allow novices and professionals alike to build innovative, flexible and affordable mobile robots.

Robotics And Things
Distributes the ROBOTIX kit. ROBOTIX kits allows children the ability to create, develop, be educated and entertained. The complete Library of ROBOTIX Parts are available to further enhance the ROBOTIX Experience and All ROBOTIX Sets & Parts are Fully Expandable and Interchangeable with each other.

RobotLand
Distributes the ThereminVision II Senor - The advantage of Thereminvison II over current technology, infrared proximity sensors, is that, with properly places antennas, you can have a full 360 degree detection zone.

Robot Objects
Robot Objects, kits, components, parts, wheels, selected specifically for robots and robotics applications

Jameco Robot Store
In 2005, Jameco Electronics purchased RobotStore.com aka Modo-tronics to expand their existing line of robot products. With plans to become the one-stop site for the robotics community, Jameco is expanding the depth and breadth of product and service offerings on a monthy basis.

Robotics Connection
The Robotics Connection store is a source for programmable robot kits, cmucam2 turrets, sensors, microcontrollers, and platforms for professionals, hobbyists, teachers, and educators wishing to develop or teach students about robotics technology and software in the classroom.

The Robot MarketPlace
Your one-stop Robot Shop. Huge selection of radio controlled robot parts (motors, electronics, batteries), as well as kits, tools, books, toys, videos and more. Build your own BattleBot.

Rolling Robots
Robot Battle Game, Robotics Workshops and Robot Building Birthday Parties. Robot toys and kits for all ages.

RoombaDevTools.com
RoombaDevTools.com provides development tools for the iRobot Roomba robotic platform. Their tools enable developers to quickly interface with Roomba and concentrate on developing robotic applications. For under $155, you get a Roomba and some interface tools for a complete robotic solution.

RoombaExchange.com
Roomba Scooba Repair Service, Models, Parts and Accessories. Roomba Exchange is one of the few suppliers of new and reconditioned iRobot Roomba Parts and accessories. Roomba Exchange is not connected or affiliated with iRobot in any way.

Sedonia Technologies
Electronic engineering company Sedonia Technologies distributes robotic kits and components in New Zealand and Australia. The company also focuses on research and development of robotic applications and algorithms, industrial automation, and implementation of fuzzy logic.

SparkFun Electronics
SparkFun believes everyone should have the tools, hardware, and resources to play with cool electronic gadgetry. SparkFun's goal is to get their hands on current technology and information and pass it on to their customers. They set out to make finding the parts and information you need easier, more intuitive, and affordable so you can create awesome projects. Great place to find robotic components!

Surveyor Corporation
Surveyor Corporation is the leading developer of foundation technologies for visual connectivity. Their flagship product is the SRV-1. Designed for research, education, and exploration, Surveyor's SRV-1 internet-controlled robot integrates a 60MIPS ARM7TDMI 32-bit processor, a digital video camera with resolution from 80x64 to 640x480 pixels, infrared sensors, and Zigbee 802.15.4 wireless communications on a dual-motor tracked mobile robotic base.

SuperDroid Robots
SuperDroid Robots provides a wide range of robot kits. Their specialty is building custom robots and robot related projects. They also provide all the parts and accessories you need to build your own robot. Additionally, they sell specialized components that can be used for robotics and many other applications such cameras and RS232 TTL converter cables.

the botshop
The BotShop stocks all OOPics, popular educational robot kits, accessories and more. Tech info and items for students, amateurs and product designers.

Total Robots Ltd
Sells high quality robot kits and components, and control products and accessories.

Trossen Robotics
Trossen Robotics promotes themselves as the first real hardware store for robot developers. They stock a wide selection of robot kits, parts, modules, controllers, and sensors for the educational markets and the serious hobbyist. Trossen Robotics has a special focus on PC based robotics and is also developing an open standard for the community to be released this spring.

Wright Hobbies Robotics
Produces and sells the DevBoard-M32; a compact controller that is simple and reusable. Various other low level hardware components. Ships internationl!

Yost Engineering
The Technology Division provides robotics hardware, robotic kits, access controls, show controls, educational products and custom development. The ServoCenter™ controller allows RC servo motors to be easily controlled for uses in robotics, animatronics and other motion control situations. BugBrain™ robotic kits are used by many schools as part of their computer programming curriculum, from elementary school through introductory college courses, as well as in home schools and after-school enrichment groups.

Zagros Robotics
Specializes in mobile robots, mobile robot parts, sensors, sonar, and mobile robot platforms.

International Robot Stores

Active Robots (United Kingdom)
Offers a range of innovative products, including robot kits, controllers and accessories, along with sensors, advanced DC and stepper motor control and other electronic and electrical accessories. Many products are designed for several applications and are presently used for teaching Maths, Design, Computing, Information Technology, Communication and Engineering Control.

BotBuilder.co.uk (UK)
Distributes the BaseBot, BoxBot and various sensors, servo controllers, etc. to be used with these kits and others. Completely Arduino compatible!

CUSTOBOTS (Canada)
Custobots specializes in high-end computer and robotic technology which is affordable to everybody. The company's main focus is to give people more time and joy in life. It is one of the few companies, where you can come and test roombas, scoobas, spykees, rovios, lawnmowing robots.....before you buy them.

HVW Technologies (Canada)
HVW Technologies is a privately-held corporation located in Calgary Alberta, Canada and has been providing embedded systems development tools to customers in 60 countries since 1997.

HUV Robotics (Canada)
Sells Bioloid Bus device boards that can be daisy-chained along with the AX-12s of a Bioloid robot

K-Team (Switzerland)
K-Team Corporation is a Swiss company that develops, manufactures and markets high quality mobile robots for use in advanced education and research. The Khepera Linecard is frequently used for academic research, while the Hemisson robot is designed for teachers and hobbyists. The KoreBot Linecard based on the KoreBot advanced miniature single board controller is a good solution for Automation and custom robotics developments.

Millswood Engineering (Australia)
Millswood Engineering is a small electrical & electronic engineering company located in Adelaide, South Australia. Their mission is to make innovative and meticulously engineered products, principally for radio-controlled and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Design work is all done by professional engineers, and have particular expertise in analogue and RF circuit design and optimisation.

Modelix Robotica (Brazil)
Modelix is a Brazilian Company which offers an open end robotics platform for classrooms and hobbysts. They are focused on component solutions for construction of structures, such as sensors and actuators ( geared motors, light sensors, etc.). The platform allows Modelix the construction of robotics projects in 4 modes: standalone mode (sensors directly command actuators), microcontroller, radio frequency, and hybrid (microcontroller with radio frequency).

Pc Control Limited (England)
Providing a wide range of input and output options this range of control boards make PC automation and control very easy.

Probotics (The Netherlands)
Probotics aims to provide robotic components, software, kits and knowledge to young people, students, teachers hobbyists and professional users. There are many shops supplying electronics, but few are specialized in robotics in Europe. In addition to robotics components they want to provide educational material to assist people in building their own robots.

Robosoft Systems (India)
Robosoft Systems® is a young & dynamic organization from India. Just two years into its inception & the company is creating waves in the design and manufacture of various robotics kits, components and niche industrial products. Everyone associated with Robosoft Systems, share a common vision of contributing actively to changing the educational landscape of India when it comes to robotics.

RobotBuy (Canada)
RobotBuy is an Ontario based distribution source of varieties of robot products such as Domestic Robots, Pet care Robot kits, Robot Toys, Robot Educational and Development kits and robot building tools and equipment.

RobotCraft (Canada)
RobotCraft is a Canadian retailer of robotic components located in London, Ontario. They collect components from multiple places and re-sell them to Canadian roboteers at lower prices by reducing the shipping and customs fees that you have to pay once your items cross the border into the country.

Robot Gear (Australia)
RobotGear is an Australian robotics store suppling a range of robot kits and parts such as sensors, motor drivers, hardware and microcontrollers for hobby, educational and research robot fun.

RobotShop (Canada)
RobotShop is a Canadian store that ships worldwide. You will find personal robots, robot toys, robot kits and robot parts to build your own robots. They also have a selection of robot mowers and robot vacuums to do your household chores.

Robot Store (Hong Kong)
Offers serveral robot parts including the MIT Handyboard system, LEGO, Tamiya models and OWI kits.

Robotics World (Singapore)
Offers serveral robots including the Sputnik, Scout, SRV-1 Blacfin Camera and various robotic components.

tech-supplies (United Kingdom)
An online shop for PICAXE, electronic, robotic and educational technology projects. The site provides a one-stop shop for students and hobbyists looking for resources for electronic and robotic projects.

VegaRoboKit (India)
Vegarobokit was started in the 2008, to design and develop hardware and software products in the field of electronics and robotics. Their catalog includes gear motors, servo motors, tires, chasis, microcontroller boards and sensors.

YeRobot (United Kingdom)
An online store for Ardunio based robots and parts.

Industrial Robots

RobotWorx
Provides low cost, high-tech industrial robots including Motorman, Fanuc, Panasonic, OTC, Nachi, ABB and Others. RobotWorx is also an industrial robotics integrator that builds systems out of brand name new and refurbished robots. For a great list of industrial related robot articles have a look at their Industry Articles page.

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