Google announced in the yearly Google IO event the release of the Android Open Accessory Kit. This kit consists basically of an Arduino Mega combined with the USB host shield and some customized firmware. What this allows us to do is to create Android applications that will interact with an Arduino…
With light sabres, Yaskawa equipped robots. Hmmmmmm. For this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics, the robotic company equipped two robotic arms with Jedi and Sith light sabres and taught them to fight. OK, maybe not to fight but it makes a nice fight choreography as shown in
At RobotShop, we sometimes get pretty strange requests from customers wanting some special service or exceptions on their order, and we always strive to give the best service and to make sure our customers are satisfied and get what they want. The picture below shows a sample of our warehouse team …
It becomes more and more obvious that robots outperform humans in tasks that require speed, precision and complex computations. The video below featuring Rollin' Justin, a mobile version of the well known Justin humanoid robot from DLR, catching two balls that are thrown at it. http://www.yout
ZenRobotics, a Finnish company, is willing to use intelligent robots to pick and sort recyclable materials in order to reduce waste and eventually save the earth and they describe in their trailer below. Yes, you read right, they have a "trailer". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPDH2uSaQeY From o
