Here is a telepresence prototype, a robot developed to see what the person wearing it is seeing. It wraps around the shoulders like a backpack equipped with an advanced video camera and a microphone. It may be useful for teleconferences, or if you need to talk on behalf of someone far away. This…
In Japan, "Street Marketing" is now handled by robots. A prototype is shown below distributing tissues to passers-by. It can very well replace the tissues with advertising cards for a company that wants visibility at a fair, for example. Interobots Inc developed the Mospeng-kun, a 1.20 m tall (…
iRobot, a world leader in robotics, announced today that it had sold its 3000th Packbot robot. Introduced for the first time in 2002, the PackBot is a Tactical Mobile Robot that allows military or civilian rescue teams to examine suspicious objects from a distance (such as bombs and bomb parcel…
Hasbro unveiled a toy version of Iron Man 2 at the 2010 Toy Fair. And this remote controlled miniature version of Iron Man equipped with lights, sounds, and projectiles does not hesitate to shoot the cameraman onsite :-) Price: somewhere around $ 50. It will be available in the fall of 2010 and i…
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) wants to develop an initiative to build a robotic hand which imitates the gestures of a human hand. Robert Mandelbaum, a manager at DARPA, explained that the research agency and robotics communities in recent years have focused on robots which mo…
