“Spare Parts” is an outsiders-beat-the-odds dramedy about illegal immigrant high school kids who enter a big robot-building competition, and make a splash in that state most hostile to illegal ...

Roomba it ain't, but if you're either pressed for cash or have a tinkerer's itch, then you'd probably be more comfortable building your own robotic butler, er, vacuum cleaner. Electronics today has ...

“Spare Parts,” the serviceable but uninspired inspirational film by director Sean Mc­Namara, is a modern-day version of “Stand and Deliver,” minus the grit and realism. In the classic 1980s film, ...

“Spare Parts” is a pleasant enough run-of-the-mill, outsiders-beat-the-odds dramedy in the “Race the Sun” mold. It’s about undocumented high school kids who enter a big robot-building competition, and ...

[Dickel]’s robot MDi #4 has been in progress for several years, but what we wanted to draw your attention to is the way the parts have been fabricated and what kind of remarkable results are possible ...