French company Parrot has just announced the prices for its AR Drone. It will be available to buy for 299 dollars from September in the United States. As a reminder, AR Drone which has been presented at the CES in Las Vegas then at E3 2010, is a quadricopter controlled by an iPhone. It has 2 v…
Karotz is the new name for Nabaztag. Mindscape acquired French company Violet but the development of the Wi-Fi rabbit has continued and a new version should be released in 2010. We assure you: the design will stay the same. In addition, 2 USB ports will be added as well as a webcam. There will…
The manufacturer of the Kuka industrial robotic arm has unveiled a mobile platform with open interfaces and open source software. It's a first: a manufacturer of industrial robots heading towards consumer robotics. The arm has a multidirectional mobile platform, a hand with 5 degrees of freedom…
The PR2 robot by Willow Garage, which has been covered in several articles, has decided to start playing pool. And, it works rather brilliantly as you can see in the video below. Its small advantage compared to a human player is to be able to visualize balls and the best trajectories to follow …
Here we go! RobotShop is at the Robotics Summit 2010, June 16, on www.robovirtualevents.com. It's a unique opportunity for all the players in robotics (all categories) to get acquainted and to make contacts in the industry. For the occasion, RobotShop is present everywhere on the site and is one …
