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RobotShop has a promotional offer for its readers on domestic robots. This is not an everyday sale, there's so much to benefit from: -Save 120 dollars by buying the RobotShop standard domestic package. It includes an iRobot Roomba 530 vacuum, a Lawnbott Spyder Robot lawn mower, and an Aquaprodu…
Vgo, a start-up in Nashua near Boston is in the process of developing a telepresence and video-conference robot which can be remote-controlled and attend conferences. Vgo has already raised 8 million dollars and will introduce its robot at the start of June in Las Vegas at an exhibition. The pr…
Here's an all-in-one robot vacuum cleaner design from Yanko Design. It can operate as a conventional upright vacuum, and the round robotic cleaner can be detached from the main body. Just like a conventional robot vacuum, the autonomous part has no problem vacuuming under the sofa. Moreover, t…
The TheCorpora blog by Francisco Paz has revealed more details on the Open Source robot QBo. This robot DIY weighs around 10 kg, measures 46 cm high, and it can recharge all by itself. It has four infrared sensors, four ultrasonic sensors, two video cameras in the eyes, two microphones in the e…
Here is a conference table robot that is able to adjust itself by taking various forms. This table is composed of four elements and is able to be separates and re-assembled, without any human intervention. The Intelligence Laboratory Robotics University of Tsukuba in Japan is behind this origin…
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google took center stage at the Google Lunar X-Prize conference ... while being physically absent. But how, you ask us? He used a Texai telepresence robot by Willow Garage. This type of robot is quite simply the future of teleconferencing. It's very practically …
You know the fixed bar acrobatics by Hinamitetu. Now, along the same lines, still gymnastics, this robot is able to perform a back flip like a human. You have to see it to believe it. The prototype has been made by a Japanese robotics fan. (See his blog) What's more, his "baby" can even run and…
In France, according to Gfk Retail & Technology, the vacuum robot market grew faster than the domestic applications market in 2009. Better yet, at the start of 2010 the increase in the market of robotic vacuum cleaners rose +5.6 % in terms of volume and +12 % in terms of value. The sales of…
If there's a new current trend in cars, excluding the ecological aspect and "green car", it's the number of tests and ideas of robotic cars which are appearing. Volkswagen has invented a car prototype (a robotic Passat) that reverse parks all by itself, and while executing a controlled slide if yo…
RobotShop has just received in stock the pool cleaning robot, Nitro, by Smartpool. We've received two models: -the Smartpool Nitro Wall Climber Robot Pool Cleaner. It cleans the pool floor (75% of its time) and the vertical sides (25% of its time). It also possesses technology which allows…
What is projet Romeo? It's a 10 million euro project led by the French company, Aldebaran Robotics, which aims to create an assistant robot for the elderly, people with reduced mobility and the visually impaired. It has received 4.9 million euros of funding from the DGCIS (General Directorate f…
RobotShop.com has just put in place a LawnBott robot lawn mower financing package for 48 American states. RobotShop offers financing of 3 months without interest thanks to its credit partner, Access Equipment & Financing. Then a rate of 12.99%. When the promotion is available you'll see the…
RobotShop.ca has a special promotion on for Aquabot swimming pool cleaning robots. If you order your pool cleaning robot before August 31, 2010, you'll automatically be in with a chance of winning the value of the Aquabot Pool Cleaner Junior. Better still! If you order this Aquabot Pool Cleaner J…
Willow Garage, whose progress we cover on this blog, just announced the eleven recipients of its PR2 robot. The PR2 robot is an open source robot which is characterized by a hardware platform (Personal Robot 2) with an ROS (Robot Operating System) open source software application. Willow Garage …
iRobot has just announced its first quarterly performance, on the increase compared to analysts' forecasts. The IRBT share took +33% in 1 single day, going from 15 to 20 dollars. The company reported gains of 24 cents per share for the first quarter in 2010 (Q1), while analysts were banking on…
What if there were no more cars on our streets in a few years and instead they were replaced by robots? In any case, that's the assertion of Stéphane Malandain, a compter science lecturer in Switzerland. And he's not talking about 40 years' time but well before. The streets will be fill…
