RobotErectus is a robot prototype of a soccer player which seems visibly ready for the soccer World Cup in South Africa :-) It shoots the ball, it can even pick the ball up from off the ground and throw it in, it jumps, it can move to the side and it can even bow to the crowd (surely after it's sc…
RobotShop blogs will have a new Microcontrollers category which will showcase the new corresponding products available in our online robot store (for example, the 32 bit microcontrollers here). Think back, we recently introduced you to the domino FEZ microcontroller by GHI Electronics. To mark …
Japan has just unveiled two new humanoid robot prototypes, M3-Kindy and Noby. -M3-Kindy is a 5 year old android weighing 27 kg with 42 degrees of freedom. The M3-Kindy robotic child is packed with sensors: more than 109 in total (including video camera eyes). It was developed with the aim of stu…
Myon is a new humanoid robot designed by the industrial design studio, Frackenpohl Poulheim (in Cologne), and developed by the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The size of a 12 year old, Myon has the special ability to continue to operate even if some …
According to Physorg, a new breed of robots is in the process of making its appearance. The surveillance and maintenance of kilometers of electric lines is often a very long task, extremely costly and also dangerous for humans. A single one of these new robots can monitor 260 km of electric lin…
