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From the same folks that brought us the Wild World of Robots, comes the Cyborgs On The Screen infographic. Full graphic after the jump. Cyborgs on the screen
It's National Robotics Week in the US this week and RobotShop is marking the occasion by offering you discounts on certain products in our shop. From April 11 to 17, 2010, (until Saturday), take advantage of a 7% discount coupon on any order over 50 dollars on RobotShop.com. COUPON CODE to ENTE…
At RobotShop it's always Christmas! Take advantage of the spring sale where we have selected more than 73 products to offer you at reduced prices, including: » Nabaztag Ears: $4 instead of $9.99 » Programmable Remote-Controlled Roboni-I Robot: $219 instead of $249 » Automatic Self-Cleaning
Hi everyone, it's been a while since I posted - had my birthday last week, so it made things a little bit crazy for me. You can all congratulate me on turning twenty-two for the fourth time. Feels good, turning twenty-two again. I may have mentioned some time ago that I'm working on an inte…
We've just integrated our product catalog, RobotShop, on Facebook. The catalog can be accessed in the "Catalog" tab directly from our Facebook page. The advantage for social networking fans is that you can browse our site without leaving the Facebook page. The browsing is done by robot categor…
It's that time again! Time for the March celebration of GoRobotics' 10th Birthday. We're once again giving away fabulous robot prizes to 3 lucky winners. Previous contests have been great, and we're excited to be doing it again with prizes from our sponsors Pololu, Super Droid Robots, Zagros Robo…
The "Gulper AUV" is an underwater vehicle that is programmed to look for information of use to the scientific community. Gulper AUV Sub-Aquatic Robot The group explains that it has 'trained' the robot to retrieve the highest-quality information back to …
Russian gas company Gazprom wants to build an oil pipeline from Vyborg, Russia to Greifswald, Germany. The pipeline will supply 26 million homes with natural gas for heating. There's one big problem though - the pipeline runs over the Baltic Sea-floor which is still covered by up to 150,000Â u
Hey loyal readers, I need your help. You may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet around here for a while - a long while, actually. The reason for this is that I've been working on another robotics project, and I need your help testing it out. The project is a new robotics website call
It's time to kick start our 10 Years of GoRobotics celebration! Our first giveaway features some great prizes from our sponsors, SuperDroid Robots, Apress, and Pololu. Entering this month's contest will be simple. Here's what you need to do: simply comment on this post and tell us your favorite rob…
Official Launch Dowload the PDF version of the press release RobotShop launches its new portal and robotics news blogs in French and English RobotShop Distribution Inc. announces today the launch of its new website and new Informational and Technological Watch Blogs in the fields of …
A french company, named Parrot, unveiled an iPhone controlled, wifi-enabled, quadrocopter at CES 2010. The robot, called the AR.Drone, is a sophisticated and snazzy quadrocopter that is controlled via an iPhone or iPod Touch over a wifi connection. The AR.Drone has two onboard cameras, one of wh
As we say goodbye to the 200x's and welcome the 201x's it's good to pause a bit and think about the world as it was ten years ago. There was no Wikipedia, no YouTube, internet access was still dialup for a huge portion of the population, and we didn't have a whole heap of really cool robots. To hig…
As 2009 comes to a close it's time once again for the Robot Christmas Gift List! We're featuring a few of the same, but mostly new, things since the 2008 Robot Christmas Gift Guide. We'll be featuring 10 items that would make great gifts for the robot lover in your life. Prices range from $10 to $9…
Reuters via DailyKos President Obama, in remarks today about the importance of a solid education in Science and Math, tipped his hand on national defense - National defense against ROBOTS. Apparently he's aware of the potential for an upcoming robopocalypse, saying: I believe that robotics
Boilerplate, the fictional robot created by artist Paul Guinan, now has a robolicious coffee-table book called Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel. Featuring historic scenes from the 19th and 20th century, we see Boilerplate's military prowess as he fights along-side military giants like T…
