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The creators of Formula E along with the tech-investment group Kinetic have announced the first global autonomous car racing championship, the ROBORACE, which will start in 2016. The Formula E is a class of auto racing that is using only electric-powered cars.
Congratulations to all the customers that found a free product hidden in our product catalog during our Black Friday Treasure Hunt Sale! You are one of the happy winners of the first edition and should count yourself priviledged.
Participate in our Black Friday Weekend treasure hunt sale! This year, search our catalog in order to find your free product. We have more than $15 000 worth in products to give away. Our Black Friday category also has special prices up to 99% discount. Hurry while supplies last. Find your free pro…
Camera and Vision sensors are becoming more and more popular lately. People find them useful and incorporate them into all kinds of projects that require vision and image processing. With a good algorithm and a powerful processor, these small jewels of technology can detect colors, shapes, faces an…
Use FlowBotics Studio to create a popular (stand-alone) robot-related software application (“App”). Don’t have FlowBotics Studio? Don’t worry! If you have been a member on LMR for over 6 months, then you can register and get FlowBotics Studio – Download ($40 USD value) absolutely free! If you’ve be…
For the fourth year in a row, RobotShop is ranked among the fastest growing companies in Canada according to the 2015 Profit 500 ranking. RobotShop is ranked honorably the 280th place this year. According to Industry Canada, there are around 1.1 million active businesses in Canada. In these last 5
RobotShop.com announced today the acquisition of Let’s Make Robots (LMR), a website that brings together the world’s largest community of robot makers and enthusiasts. Let's Make Robots RobotShop, the leading source for robots and robot parts on the web already hosts one of the l…
The robotics field is growing exponentially and so is RobotShop. As such, we have recently opened some positions that anybody interested in robotics would love. Job Bot - by Nate Working at RobotShop is not for everybody though, you need to have a PROBOTS personality. You might be wondering wh…
This week only, we are offering a $50USD discount on the Matter and Form Portable 3D Scanner. Don't miss your chance to purchase this already truly affordable 3D scanner. Make your ideas a reality and fast track the design process. This 3D scanner is designed to slide smoothly into your workspac…
Drones were flying at the Jason Gymnasium floor in Jefferson City last week for the intergenerational pilot program, created by the Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and the Paula J. Carter Center. We were very impressed to see that children as young as 6 joined in on the building, learni…
Today we announce the beginning of the expansion work on our logistics center in Mirabel, Canada, Phase 2 of 4. We are adding 20,000 additional square feet to the existing building. This growth is due in part by the strength of the market and a large number of new robotic products being launched on…
RobotShop.com, the world’s leading robot store for all your robotic needs, announced today that it has partnered with PulsedLight in order to become a master distributor of the popular LIDAR-Lite optical distance measurement sensor and future technology developed by PulsedLight, a manufacturer of
This past Saturday the team from South Korea which designed, built and programmed their humanoid robot DRC-HUBO took home the $2 million dollar first-place prize as part of the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge. The focus of this year's challenge was to create a robot which could complete a vari…
In many post-apocalyptic stories, the impetus for the end of order and reason is a "robot uprising" - the idea that robots created by humans have gained sentience and want either their freedom, or to rule humans. The question is, could this really happen? Could the human race be enslaved or even wi…
RobotShop once again announces new functionalities in order to help customers with their robot purchases. We are always evolving and adding new features based on customer comments and the latest technologies used in the industry. This time RobotShop adds Notify Me options as well as an easy to use …
Are you ready for National Robotics Week 2015? The sixth annual National Robotics Week event will be held April 4-12, 2015. We invite you all to join us in the celebration of the National Robotics Week. For this very special week, RobotShop is offering a discounts on selected products for
