According to Vincent Schramm, the Director of the French association for manufacturing technologies (SYMOP) in an article in Figaro, France has fallen behind its neighbours in terms of industrial robotics. In France, the biggest companies are lowering the low purchase prices which is encouraging…
Gordon Bennett is a New Yorker who fully devotes all his time to his passion which is also his source of income: he creates sculptures of robots. It's a current trend as it's not the first of which we've shown you on the RobotShop blog. Gordon's robots are truly fantastic. His sculptures take …
Cody is a new humanoid robot, a work in progress at Healthcare Robotics Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta). This robot can open closet doors and drawers and can follow a person holding it by the hand. Cody is manipulated with a remote control just like those for video games, o…
The long awaited film Toy Story 3 will premier June 18, 2010 in the U.S. and July 14, in France (National Independence day). And the film's team just released a new character on the poster: Sparks the robot! Sparks is a light flashing toy with several LEDs for the eyes and it really sparks. It…
The Boeing A160T Robocopter is a pilotless helicopter that can lift loads up to 1135 kg. The video of the A160 (2007): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndveJE24bg This robocopter model can also reach an unbelievable height of 12 000 feet (3657 meters above sea level) with 567 kg, this is ideal …
