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Well folks we've arrived at another year. I want to give a big shout-out to all the loyal readers of GoRobotics.net for making 2006 a great year, in spite of all the challenges. 2006 was a tough year for me and I'm sure you've noticed some big holes in the posting schedule - I got en…
Hanson Robotics , the creators of the Albert Einstein and Philip K. Dick robots are hoping to break into the home robot market. David Hanson, the companies founder, likes to create life-like robots that blur the line between man and machine."If you make it perfectly realistic, you trigger th…
The Chicago Police department runs into a few snags while showing off its latest bomb disposal robot . Moral of the story: always rehearse before going on camera!Zou Renti creates a robotic copy of himself . Creepiness ensues.Here's a video of the scariest rubics-cube solving robot you'll e…
It looks like everyone's favorite, under appreciated, robotics company, Evolution Robotics, has teamed up with a, "large appliance manufacturer" to create a competitor to iRobot's smash-hit Roomba. The main claim-to-fame of the new soon-to-be sucker'bot is that it will be …
Kondo's latest RoboOne robot, KHR-2HV, is now available to non Japanese customers via the Japanese gadget exporter AudioCubes. RoboSavvy.com also sells the KHR-2HV kit, but it ships from Japan. The kit costs about $1000 and features several improvements over the original KHR-1. The upgraded robot …
Our friends over at Robot Magazine sent us a note that they'd gotten an exclusive shot of the new Vex Robotics Development system that is in the works. The new system will be jointly created by Revell Monogram LLC and Innovation First, Inc. (the original developers of Vex). Innovation First will
Yen-Wen Lu and Chang-Jin Kim at UCLA have created the World's Smallest robotic hand . The hand, which is capable of grasping an object 1mm across, has four fingers made of silicone and polymer joints. The hand operates pneumatically when the balloon joints are inflated. The hand is seen in th …
The HAL-5 exoskeleton suit is nearing "mass" production. Engadget reports that professor Yoshiyuki Sankai at Tsukuba University is hoping to have the suit ready for 400-500 units by 2008, with a mere 20 units produced in 2007. The suite allows its user to double his lifting abilities.It…
VeraTech Aero, a Minnesota USA based company, has invented an aircraft that is nearly invisible to the naked eye. The secret to this technology is the concept of persistance of vision, or the lack thereof. The aircraft is uniquely created so that as it spins, its center of mass is in open space. T…
Caterpillar, the international maker of heavy machinery and eqipment, is seeking to enable it's bulldozers and eather movers to operate autonomously. Using a system of sensors and GPS navigation, the equipment would navigate around a building site while being cooridnated from a remote central l…
National Instruments announced today that it has created a LEGO Mindstorms NXT toolkit for direct interfacing between the kit and its powerful LabVIEW software. If you're one of the lucky few to own a copy of LabVIEW (most folks don't want to drop the $4k for it), then you will have the …
Reader David Aliaga, who's a member of the ZMP Inc. Education Team, sent us a note telling us about ZMP's latest product, the e-Nuvo WHEEL robot. The robot is based on Nuvo, but this time it's an inverted pendulum. Just to add up to the news, ZMP has launched what we called the…
Here's a quick link dump to catch up on my lack of posts.Jim, over at The NXT Step, pointed out that the New Yorker is doing a cartoon caption contest with a robot theme. Go and submit your idea, let me know what you think up.Here's a story I picked up about a suicidal man being subdued by a SWAT t…
A new South Korean startup, D2E Robotics, plans on releasing a two-legged hobbiest robot in October. In what appears to be a move to compete with other companies, such as Kyosho, Kondo, and Hitec, the robot, dubbed D2V-ZN, will have simple voice recognition and a vision system. Though, strangely
A new Japanese robotics magazine, Robot Life, has polled 500 Japanese females to ask them who was their favorite commercial robot. The grand winner was the PaPeRo robot, pictured at left, built by NEC. Also making the top 10 list (though, at a dismal 10th), is our friend Robonova. Wakamaru and Mano…
Here's a round-up of the latest news relating to Ugobe's robotic dinosaur Pleo, courtesy of our sister-site, PleoBot.com.Exclusive ROBOT Magazine Interview with Pleo’s MakersUgobe Announces Release Date for Pleo!Forbes Says Pleo One of 7 Robots That Will Change Your LifeMore News from Ugobe …
