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Black Friday Sale In order to thank you all for being happy RobotShop customers, we are offering you a great promotion for this year's Thanksgiving holiday. From Friday, November 22nd, to Monday, November 26th, you can get a total value of 70$ for free when ordering the Neato XV-21 Thanksgiving bu…
RobotShopTV Youtube Channel We are happy to announce that our YouTube channel RobotShopTV got over one million views! It makes us happy and proud to know that you are watching our videos. Below you can see one of our latest videos for your enjoyment. Head to our channel for more robotic
New RoboticApp Apps The creative minds behind RoboticApp recently released new versions of their popular applications with new functionality - and made them available via the MyRobots App Store. RoboChat: received an update and still provides interaction with your iRobot Roomba using a cha…
Heartland Robotics, founded by Rodney Brooks as reported before, changed its identity to Rethink Robotics. And rethinking robotics they do as they recently released Baxter, a robot with common sense as they brand it. Baxter overview Baxter redefines industrial robots since it allows small an
L'actualité Growth Leaders As announced by L'actualité magazine last week, RobotShop finds itself to be the 10th fastest growing company in Quebec. After being ranked among the top 200 Canadian fastest growing companies by Profit, RobotShop has now been ranked as the 10th Quebec leading company
ALIZ-E Project Nao Human-Robot Interaction The Forbes web site started a new column about the future of robotics. Unlike other news sources, instead of focusing on the latest technological advances and research, they are interested in the real-world application of robotic technology. In other
RobotShop is very proud to announce today the acquisition of Lynxmotion, a leading manufacturer of educational robotic kits. As described in a press release published today, RobotShop will be taking over all of Lynxmotion's operations and effectively continuing Lynxmotion's mission of allowing robo…
Kinect@Home Discerning shapes and recognizing objects takes humans several years to learn and it is an essential skill to survive and interact with the world around us. Machines also need to learn this important skill and although some researchers have made progress in recognizing objects, shap
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…
It has been years in the making; hundreds of engineers and scientists and debate after debate of where and how to land - but the rover Curiosity has finally touched down and is working properly. Image from Curiosity - Courtesy of JPL The rover, equipped with not only a multitude of cameras (1…
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
In The Mail We are back with another "Feedback Friday". As you may know, at RobotShop, we strive to offer the best and fastest service possible. We do this by answering all of our communications within 24 business hours (the majority of which are answered within 3 working hours) and by shipping y
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
