本书是一本制作机器人的入门教程，书中详细介绍了制作机械人的每个步骤，其中包括30多个机器人，并用上百幅图指导你学习每一个技能。随着项目的深入，你会从初学者渐渐成长为专家，通过驱动电机、配置传感器、构建底盘、在Arduino微控制器上进行编程等方式制作更加高级的机器人。

John Baichtal got his start writing blog posts for Wired's legendary GeekDad blog as well as the DIYer's bible MAKE Magazine. From there he branched out into authoring books about toys, tools, robots, and hobby electronics. He is the co-author of The Cult of Lego (No Starch) and author of Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement as well as Basic Robot Building With Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (both from Que). Most recently he wrote Make: Lego and Arduino Projects for MAKE, collaborating with Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler. He lives in Minneapolis, MN, with his wife and 3 children.