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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
Boxing Week Sale Are you looking for a robotic deal? look no further, from December 24th 2012 (we are starting early!) to January the 2nd 2013 you can benefit from awesome robotic deals. Visit our sales section today and get some discounted robotic sweetness.
Season’s greetings everyone! It’s been an incredible year. I am grateful to be surrounded by such a great team and also to be part of this exciting adventure which is RobotShop and the robotic revolution. We have accomplished many things this year, all with the objective of fulfilling ou
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 …
MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printers are types of robots that are revolutionizing the manufacturing sector. They make product creation accessible to (almost) everyone by taking care of the precise and often cost-prohibitive work involved in building a physical object. In the same way regular com…
Autom Diet Robot Autom is a small companion robot created by Intuitive Automata. Its main goal is to encourage people to have a healthy diet, and exercise regularly with the objective of loosing weight and staying healthy. This robot uses its social capabilities, which include speech and eye-
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
