And you thought all that business about synthentic hands replacing real ones, viz Star Wars, was Hollywood trickery. Well, you thought wrong! It would appear that the Cyberhand Project is bringing a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, to the here-and-now. Each of the five fingers is arti…
I predict 2006 will be the year of the RoboOne robots. First, Hitec gets into the action with its RoboNova robots, and now Volks Inc. is selling their very slick "Robofie" robots. Just from looking at the movies, it would appear that the Robofie is a bit more dexterous than RoboNova (here are some …
You may have seen the new Manoi robot from Kyosho featured on Akihabara News or Engadget, the the thing that sruck me, was its uncanny likeness to Chroino, which made big waves at this year's RoboNexus 2005 conference (photos). Engadget claims they're built around the Kyosho KHR-1 robot body, but …
Fully transformable robot costumes. It made its way from BoingBoing to Engadget and then here. Be your favorite Transformer character next halloween and transform, while you're wearing it. Engadget says: Since 1993, Canadian aerospace worker De Repentigny has been creating one-of-a-kind, stri…
Wow, this really snuck up on me, but CEO Colin Angle and Chairman Helen Greiner rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ today. There were celebrating the offering of iRobot's stock, which is trading under the symbol "IRBT". Great going guys! It closed today at $26.70 after opening at $34.16 w…
