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[youtube After being in the shadow of the VTail's UAV platforms, the Crazy2Fly is ready to take the place it deserves. With its easier to understand (and set up) Quad X (or +) configuration, you will be in air in no time. As the video shows, this baby is more than capable when it comes…
Bionic Man vs Bionic Woman Even today’s young people have heard of Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man, and his girlfriend, The Bionic Woman. After separate accidents, each of them was surgically repaired and enhanced by the government and they became secret agents. Steve Austin
For the third year in a row, RobotShop is among the fastest growing companies in Canada, ranking 186th according to the 26th Annual PROFIT 500 ranking. In 2013, RobotShop was ranked 151st, while in 2012 we were ranked 63rd. As a comparison, Industry Canada reports there are around 1.1 million activ…
RobotShop Shipping Rates We are proud to announce that RobotShop has recently made changes to shipping rates in order to improve service to customers. From now on, free shipping in North-America will be offered for all orders over $200 before tax instead of $250.This means that all of your f
Google announced recently that its self-driving car project is moving to the next phase: they are building electric prototypes with no steering wheels or pedals, just Go and Stop buttons. These vehicles will be tested in the state of California, who just approved new laws for prototype autonomous c…
RobotShop is pleased to announce the merge of the Lynxmotion and RobotShop forums. This merge will bring together two popular communities to discuss anything and everything related to robotics. Visit the new forum at https://www.robotshop.com/forum/ Back in September 2012, RobotShop acquired Ly…
The Hokuyo scanning sensors are great 2D obstacle scanners. They can be used in fixed locations to detect if an object enters its scan area, and can be used on mobile platforms that need to do obstacle detection and avoidance as they move. There are two categories of sensors: outdoor sensors th…
Medusa Project - Draft A few months ago, Eric Pinkel contacted RobotShop/Lynxmotion and myself asking if we wanted to be a consultant for their big VTail Medusa project. Very interested and amazed by the work already done by Eric and his team, we immediately stepped in to help whenever
Some of you may have hear about Scout -- The Autonomous Transatlantic Robot. She is a 12-foot long robotic solar-powered boat designed and built by 7 college/university students from the USA. She was launched in August 2013 from Rhode Island and programmed to autonomously cross the Atlantic Ocean…
ORLANDO, Fla. – TROBO the Storytelling Robot as the company launches its Kickstarter campaign and participates in both the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas and Maker Faire Orlando.
It has been a few years since RobotShop released the original DFRobotShop Rover, and we continue to be amazed and delighted with what people are using them to do. Recently German researchers used the DFRobotShop Rover as well as additional parts (light sensor, camera, software) to mimic the simple …
M3CANUM DOG Project We're always curious what our customers do with the parts they purchased. Dimitri Dekyvere was kind enough to share a video of the versatile LEGO robot he created using the new EV3 construction system along with LEGO compatible Mecanum wheels. The M3CANUM DOG is a very co…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software, and the branch of computer science that develops machines and software with intelligence. Source: Wikipedia Do you remember HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's “2001: A Space Odyssey”? This supposedly infallible c
Lynxmotion BH3R Hexapod Walking Robot Lynxmotion is announcing today that all Lynxmotion kits based on the Basic Atom Pro have been discontinued. Our supplier of the Basic Atom Pro microcontroller modules has notified us that they are changing their focus and the future availability of their mic…
Nao Celebrates the Holidays Nao, the popular humanoid robot, has some holiday wishes for all humans as shown in the video below. We understand that it is not the new year yet, so for those who want to keep celebrating Christmas, we invite you to sing Jingle bells rock along with the li…
Sid Interactive Robot Arm Game "Sid" is Si digital's latest interactive remotely-controlled robotic arm. According to their website: "Sid was created as one of our many hack weeks here at Si digital. The underlying objective is always to create something as a team that we wouldn't normally ge…
