This article was last modified on 29 November 2016.

I always try my best to challenge your abilities in engineering and produce some interesting, innovative and useful robots. And as designers, we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, I’ve discovered the best programmable robotics kits that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd.

If you choose to learn how to program a robot before trying to get into electronics and hardware design, the quickest solution is a programmable robot kit. Moreover, the use of a programmable robotics kit is the best practice when no one else is around to guide you from where to start.

Below, I explored forty-seven programmable robotics kits engineered by designers across the globe.

Wheeled Robotics Kits

• Elegoo UNO Project Smart Robot Car Kit

• Zip Runt Rover

• Elecfreaks FreaksCar Arduino Robot Starter Kit

• InstaBots Upright Rover Kit Pro

• Ralph Self-Balancing Telepresence Robot

• NEJE TJ0001-1

• Makeblock DIY mBot Kit

• ArcBotics Sparki Robot

• Parallax Boe-Bot Robot Kit

• Edison

• Multiplo – Robot Building Kit

• PICAXE Microbot Programmable Robot

• 2WD Bot

• Smart Video Car Kit for Raspberry Pi

• GoPiGo

• DiddyBorg

• iRobot Create 2

• Turtlebot 2

• DFRobotShop Mecanum Rover 2.0

• 4WD 60mm Mecanum Wheel Arduino Robot Kit

Kits on Tracks

• Keyestudio TS

• Kuman Wireless Wifi manipulator Robot Car Kit

• TH Robot WiFi Robot Kit

• BrickPi Starter Bundle

• Devastator Robot Kit

• Zumo Robot for Arduino

Walking Robots

• Hexbug Programmable Robotics Spider Kit

• Ringo Robot

• Insectbot Hexa

• Crawling Quadruped Robot DIY Kit

• Phoenix 3DOF Hexapod

• Velleman Four legged Allbot Toy

• Plen

• Alpha 1S Intelligent

• Meccanoid G15 Personal Robot

Robotics Arm Kits

• MeArm

• SainSmart DIY Control Palletizing Robot Arm

• PhantomX Reactor

• Tinkerkit

• Dagu Robot arm kit with serial interface

Flying Robots

• DIY Quadcopter Assembling Kits

• Crazepony MINI Quadcopter

Modular Kits

• 11 in 1 Programmable Robot Kit

• KIBO 18 Kit

• LEGO Mindstorms EV3 31313

• Monster Kit v1.0

• JIMU