The cyborgs are already among us! Here's a fantastic info graphic image which recounts the life of cyborgs in the cinema. To recall, a cyborg is a human who has robotic parts otherwise known as a bionic man, like Robocop for example. The poster shows that cyborgs have been on the big screen sinc…
BeetleCam BeetleCam is a remote photography project of African wildlife by Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas. The two brothers have placed a Canon 400D DSLR camera with two flashes on a robotic mobile base which is controlled remotely. The images reported are superb. However, there was a smal…
Botropolis has made a nice compilation of photos showing paper robots (or cardboard to be exact). Making the robots is free, except that you have to print the model with a color printer if possible. This type of scale model is available all over the web for collectors; you just need to search a l…
What is projet Romeo? It's a 10 million euro project led by the French company, Aldebaran Robotics, which aims to create an assistant robot for the elderly, people with reduced mobility and the visually impaired. It has received 4.9 million euros of funding from the DGCIS (General Directorate f…
RobotShop has just received the Genesi EFIKA MX Open Client, a very small but very powerful micro computer. It can be used as a central controller for a robot. It's barely the size of two packets of playing cards. The Genesi has 512 MB of RAM, 4GM of SSD hard disk, Bluetooth, WiFi, 100 MBit …
