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If you have visited the Arduino website lately, you may have noticed a strange circular board under "Hardware" which Arduino has simply named the "Arduino Robot". Arduino is set to release this new product in July of this year. The round shape is obviously for maneuverability (just like mos…
The long-awaited Lynxmotion Servo Erector Set V1.1 is now available for immediate purchase! Lynxmotion SES V1.1 Robots SES stands for "Servo Erector Set", a versatile set of servo brackets and mechanical parts used as modular building blocks for hobby servo motors. The Servo Ere
Fake Google Driverless Car F.A.T. played a practical joke on Manhattan residents recently by creating a fake Google driverless / autonomous car and "autonomously" roaming the streets. They displayed terrible driving skills (even staged some accidents), and acted as offensively as they could. See…
RobotShop Rover This article is a follow-up to the RobotShop Grand Tutorial Series and includes all the hardware chosen in the "Practical Example" at the bottom of each lesson. The RobotShop Rover for Arduino is a small tracked platform designed around the popular Arduino USB microcont…
UAV Proposal by Fresno Aerial Photography Nothing says "I love you" better than a robot, right? That's exactly what Jason thought when he proposed to his girlfriend Christina. Did she say "Yes!"?. Watch the video below to find out. We believe there are many cheesy ways of proposing but we
Cubiebot, Filmmaker Robot Cubiebot, a little robot made from hobbyist robot parts and cardboard is directing and filming its own documentary. As a matter of fact, many of these filmmaker robots are on the loose interviewing humans about their relationships with other robots. As shown in the v
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
You better read this post up to the end to get the scoop Cloud robotics is proving to be the most natural and efficient way to create and manage modern robotics technology. Robots are no longer limited to their physical, onboard components, instead, they are able to access an ever-broadening arr
This section is intended to provide you with an overview of the history of robotics. As you may have guessed, the history of robotics is intertwined with the history of technology, science and the basic principle of progress. Technology used in computing, electricity, even pneumatics and hydraul…
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…
2045 Milestones Dmitry Itskov, a Russian mogul, recently launched the "2045 Initiative". His main goal is to promote the development of technology aimed at achieving immortality. As shown in the image above, the project has very ambitious milestones that can be arguably a bit too optimistic.
Robot Combat League The SyFy Channel recently launched the new "Robot Combat League"; a new series featuring large, ~2m tall humanoid robots fighting against each other one on one (almost identical to the robots in the movie "Real Steel"). Each robot is controlled by two operators (one for th
Robotics is more than a passing trend. Just as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (founders of Apple Computers) were part of the "Homebrew Computer Club" before personal computers were widespread, robotics enthusiasts are coming together to form robotics clubs around the world. The ideas, pr…
Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon The 2013 Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon has been announced! This year, the organizers are addressing the issue of robot remote monitoring via MyRobots.com: Robots are intended to be autonomous agents that go about minding their own business and accomplishing t
Le calculateur de couple de bras robotique est destiné à vous aider à choisir le bon moteur pour chaque articulation de votre bras robotique. Le couple (T) nécessaire à chaque articulation est calculé comme pour le pire des cas (levée d'un poi…
The Human Brain Project The human brain is arguably the most intriguing and complex part of our bodies and the way it works has puzzled scientists for most of human history. Enter The Human Brain Project; a European commission charged with the task of recreating a human brain inside a super
