Fun robotic happenings such as movies, art installations and performances, music, and more.
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…
Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently Intelligent Smart Human Author Lynn Messina imagined a world where robots are the norm and humans are convenient appliances to do menial chores around the house. In her book Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently Intelligen
Minds + Machine TV Add General Electric has released what might be the most epic robot-themed TV ad ever. Take a look below. The ad features many well known real robots as well as robots from science-fiction. The fictional robots include Robbie, B-9 (Lost in Space), the original K.I.T.T.
Pinokio Face Tracking Lamp Students from Victoria University (Toronto, Canada) created a real-life version of the Disney Pixar lamp and called it "Pinokio". This playful robot can detect and track faces and also express emotions using its movements and reactions. It uses servo motors to actuate …
Curiosity on Mars The Mars Curiosity Mission is by far one of the most important robotic achievements of all times. Today, we got the first 360 degrees panorama from the rover and it is quite stunning. See it for yourself over at 360cities.net. Needless to say, NASA is very proud of their achi
Kuratas Ride-in Giant Robot The Japanese did it again. This time they are fulfilling the dream of pretty much any robotic geek: to have your own functional giant Battle Mech that can be piloted by a grown adult and used to cruise through the city and defeat all your arch-enemies. Suidobashi heavy…
Don't you hate standing up to throw that candy wrapper or paper ball to the garbage? It takes a lot of energy to stand up, walk over to the garbage can, and then throw the litter away. If you have a garbage can without a lid, you might be tempted to throw (basketball style) your trash into the can,…
ED-209. Looks familiar? The robotics security giant OmniCorp wants your city to be safe. Adding to their growing list of defense robots will be their newest development, the RC 2000. They are very secretive at the moment about the technology involved, but it is said to combine the resilience and
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
For some time we thought dubstep was simply a new awesome type of music that probably comes from aliens, and that features some amazing beat drops. However, we now understand that it comes from angry robots. Dubstep As shown in the menial kitchen robotic dispute in the video below, a rather
At RobotShop we understand that robots are friendly and that they only want to make us happy. However, in the very unlikely (but still possible) event that robots become self-aware, form a collective consciousness and want to destroy us all, we would like you to be prepared. The following vi
Happy Easter to all robots and all humans! As seen below, robot manufacturer Clearpath Robotics has been having some Easter fun with a few TurtleBots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jagdw-G3mU
The trailer for the upcoming short film BLINKY by Ruairi Robinson has been released. See it below. [vimeo 16755989] The film is set in a not so distant future and features a domestic robot that apparently turns into a rampaging killer...Either that, or it enjoys ketchup too much. Blinky is
Everybody knows that robots take jobs that are simply too dangerous or that human do not want to do, filming and taking pictures of bikini models is definitely not one of them. Nevertheless, a very lucky hexacopter UAV got this highly coveted job. UAV Photographing Bikini Model If you want to…
Nao Close-up Nao keeps making headlines and becoming more and more popular. The little humanoid has been featured on Fox News. As reported by the anchors, University of Hertfordshire is developing the robot's response to human emotions. This aims to create better communication between robots
Marvin From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This Japanese robotic ice cream making machine must be the most expensive and slowest way of making ice cream. One can imagine that if the robot big (actually huge) head is filled with computational power, it must be a very bored and depressed rob
