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National Robotics Week 2011 As you may already have guessed, robotics is very important to RobotShop. That is why we have joined the National Robotics Week movement. From April 9th to April 17th 2011, we invite you all to join us in the celebration of the National Robotics Week. This event is in
At RobotShop, we strongly believe robotics will be taking a larger and very important part in education. The video below summarizes our views and shows how important robotics in education is when preparing for the future challenges. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4_Ds3tkn0s Those who were at the
As we announced previously, RobotShop was at the CRC Robotics Challenge this year. On this 10th anniversary of the competition we had lots of fun at our kiosk. RobotShop CRC Kiosk This is an amazing competition for high-school and CEGEP students, allowing them to design and build their own rob
We are proud to announce that the very awesome Jazz telepresence robot by Gostai is available for sale at RobotShop. This robot can virtually teleport you to any place in the world and allows you to work remotely. As a result, you can save on business trips, boost productivity, quickly manage probl
SaRTrE Volvo Auto Train Volvo is testing their new Safe Road Trains for the Environment, which basically means, cars that drive autonomously. The system is intended to be used on highways where a lead (human driven) truck will be followed by autonomously driven cars. The cars will receive instr
Robotic Summit 2011 On March 10th, 2011 Robotics Trends will be hosting the NextGen Education & Research Robotics Virtual Summit. This year's summit will focus on the use of robotics to accelerate learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among K-12 and college-l
Arduino-Compatible RGB LED Mood Cube RobotShop is putting together a series of video tutorials in order to get you up and running with electronic and robotics projects. The first such project is an Arduino-compatible RGB LED Mood Cube. This is basically the high-tech geeky version of a mood light
South Korea is testing English teaching Robots in their elementary school classrooms. EngKey, a 1 meter tall autonomous robot that can be used by foreign English teachers to teleport into the Korean classrooms, is being used in 21 Korean elementary schools at the moment. The 29 deployed robots fo
Internet of Things Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson, believes there will be over 50 Billion "connected devices" by 2020. The world's leading telecom provider says that "in the future everything that would benefit from being connected will be connected". This effectively creates the upcoming Inte
We wish you all a very happy holidays filled with love, joy and robots...lots of robots. If you need a last minute robotic gift for someone, you can quickly put together this holiday paper-craft robot below. You could also go crazy and add some LEDs in order to make it even more robotic. Thi
Heartland Robotics, a company founded by Rodney Brooks (founder and former Chief Technological Officer at iRobot, and MIT professor) is developing what should constitute a true robolution. Their main objective is to change the way we currently view robots by making them ubiquitous. Heartland R
Gostai, the creators of Urbi, the popular Open Source control software for robots, just released their new robot: Jazz. Jazz from Transformer (winstonltl.blogspot.com) Transformers fans, don't get too exited, because this is not a transforming robot from outer-space, it is a telepresence rob
The trailer for the upcoming short film BLINKY by Ruairi Robinson has been released. See it below. [vimeo 16755989] The film is set in a not so distant future and features a domestic robot that apparently turns into a rampaging killer...Either that, or it enjoys ketchup too much. Blinky is
Some time ago, we announced the nomination for the Top Ten Coolest Robots of 2010. You voted and now the results are in. Let's have a closer look at the ten lucky robots and find out which one is the big winner. #10 Google Car and Bae Systems Taranis Tied These two robots are tied in the number
As launched by our friend William Cox, the Open LiDAR Project aims to reward the first to be able to successfully hack the Neato XV-11 LiDAR. More precisely, the first person to get useful readings out of the Neato XV-11 LiDAR and published his code and procedure under an open license, will get
Everybody knows that robots take jobs that are simply too dangerous or that human do not want to do, filming and taking pictures of bikini models is definitely not one of them. Nevertheless, a very lucky hexacopter UAV got this highly coveted job. UAV Photographing Bikini Model If you want to…
