As we reported before, DARPA issued its latest challenge where they will require a humanoid robot to complete a series of tasks (worthy of an action movie) which include driving a car, breaking down a wall, and using tools - all with the goal of "saving the day" during a mock…
The Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2013 is currently taking place. The hacking marathon where participants compete to create the best cloud monitoring robotic application started on April 6th and will be ending on the 14th of the same month. So far 29 teams from all around the world are hard at w
Update: The contest is now closed. I'll be gathering the entires and sending them to our judges over the next week or two. Stay tuned for a post announcing the winners. If you won I will also contact you via email. Thanks and good luck! The past few months have been a lot of fun, with us giv…
Bots High Remember BattleBots? The TV show where two remote controlled robots would enter a weaponized arena and fight it out for 3 minutes or until one stopped moving. The name "Bots High" is a combination of "Robots" and "High School". Well, even though the show ended, the competitions have…
HUBO holding a powertool We reported on the DARPA Humanoid Challenge before, but now we finally have a video that shows what would be the ideal winner of the contest, as imagined by the Universities behind the HUBO humanoid robot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3gnPp97jD8 Of course this is just…
Robot Film Festival 2012 The 2012 Robot Film Festival took place last weekend (on July 14th) in New York. The festival opened with a per-screening of the upcoming movie Robot & Frank, winner of the Sundance Film Festival. http://vimeo.com/45874395 The festival features a myriad of short fil
DARPA Robotic Challenge The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military, issued a new challenge to all roboticists of the world to create a new generation of Rescu
In just 10 days the first Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon will take place. Join the 200 people already registered for a full weekend of hacking and connecting robots to the cloud. Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon If you are not aware yet of what this hackathon is all about, see our previous covera…
Us, robot geeks, love robot movies (...even if we sometimes complain about inaccuracies and fallacies), and Real Steel is a great robot movie now available on DVD and Blue-ray. So, in order to satisfy both your cravings for robots and your desire for entertainment, we are giving away three Blu
Tinkerers, hackers, roboticists, and geeks of the world rejoice! RobotShop is partnering with Instructables to bring you an awesome contest. RobotShop Instructables Microcontroller Contest Instructa...what? Instructables! For those of you living under a rock, Instructables is a great website
As previously discussed, Google (a.k.a. Skynet) is getting involved in the development of very advanced robots. One of their most notorious robotics projects is the Lunar X-Pize competition. See the video below for a global explanation of what the X-Prize Foundation is. http://www.youtube.com/watc
As we announced previously, RobotShop was at the CRC Robotics Challenge this year. On this 10th anniversary of the competition we had lots of fun at our kiosk. RobotShop CRC Kiosk This is an amazing competition for high-school and CEGEP students, allowing them to design and build their own rob
Canadian Robotic Competition The 10th annual CRC Robotics challenge “Mill-bornes” 2011 will take place on February 10 to 12 at Lester B.Pearson High School. RobotShop has been a long-term partner and supporter of the CRC and once again this year we will be present at the competition covering
IBM really wants to beat humans with their computers. In the past, they created Deep Blue which was able to defeat the human Chess champion. Now, they developed Watson, an information retrieving machine which is intended to defeat the human Jeopardy champion. Watson has already accomplished this b…
At RobotShop, we sometimes wonder where all the robot parts we sell end up, what robots are being made with them and which robots were successful and which were not. The impending release of Bots High, a documentary about a group of high school students who build combat robots to compete in the
From RobotShop we wish you all a happy new year. May 2011 be filled with all the robots you always wished to have. If you are looking for creative and original ways of celebrating the new year, the THKR-4 is a very good choice to have at your New Year's party. This robot is one of the competito