The firm Peratech, based in North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) is taking a step further in humanizing robots. After finding applications for its QTC (quantum tunneling composites) in mobile phones and video games, it …
By 2012, South Korea should see a great number of robot teachers landing in their classrooms. The Korean government will inject nearly 9 million US dollars in 2011 to increase to 500 number of schools testing out a robot assistant teacher. Then in 2012, Korea will invest 36 million dollar…
Samsung's Navibot robot vacuum cleaner arrives in Europe this spring and will be available soon at RobotShop in the robot vacuums category. All RobotShop international customers can purchase it as soon as we have it in stock. Operation: To start, Navibot maps the area it is going to clean by ca…
MechRC introduces its new robot toy, Spheroidz. This strange robot moves inside a transparent plastic bubble allowing it to overcome any obstacle: earth, water, rocks. Spheroidz even goes down stairs (rolling). It is a virtually unbreakable toy, unless someone pierces its bubble of course. But i…
For the first time ever, the Philippines, will host on November 6 and 7, 2010, the World Robot Olympiad. The World Robot Olympiad (WRO) is a robot competition that brings together more than a thousand schools with students and teachers from 30 different countries. Two categories are presented: …
GetRoboticsJobs.com is a robotics job listing site based in the United States that offers jobs from around the world. Employers can post their job offers for free. Job seekers can follow the job listings via RSS feed or by email. A great idea for a job listing site targeting robotics engineers…
Eager, a Japanese company has developed a robot mannequin out of ... cardboard! This is an environmentally friendly solution for the planet. But if it starts walking, this may upset the top-models ... ; -) D+Ropop is made entirely from recycled cardboard paper, it contains 8 motors and weighs o…
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) recently introduced the FlyFire project. An image in space is created using miniature robot helicopters with multicolored LEDs. These helicopters move anywhere in 3D space, then hover in mid-air to create the image of your choice. Flyfire could invol…
DARPA is currently developing a robot interpreter that would support the troops at war. Right now, troops use human translators who speak in military radios. The Pentagon and DARPA seek to build a robot interpreter with 98% accuracy in 20 different languages. The project is called RATS for Rob…
We told you last week about RobotShopFr's twitter account: The 3rd Barbot Festival was recently held in San Francisco. And for the event, robotics creators and fans displayed their specimens to the people attending. For example, the cocktail robot was created specifically for this event: http:/…
The musical robot that plays drums is born. Jazari is controlled by two Nintendo Wii remotes. The designer is Jazari Music's Patrick Flanagan. The Wiimote allows accelerating or slowing down the percussion beat as well as adjusting the volume. A real gem for music geeks. Explanations: http://w…
The Japanese JO-Zero robot was introduced late in 2009 at the International Robots Exhibition. With twenty degrees of freedom (different movements), including ten in the legs, eight in the arms, and two in size, this mini-robot moves almost like a human. In the future, when a larger version is …
Here is a rather amusing T-shirt created by Goapesshirts displaying a robot couple watching TV while having second intentions in mind ;-) Let's note that the real robot couple is the one on the left, in the first picture! The T-shirt costs $ 18 and is called "While the Kids Are In Standby mode…
A joint project between the Missouri University of Sciences and the University of Missouri - Columbia has led to the development of a robot that provides 3D images of inaccessible or dangerous structures. The prototype, which required 400,000 dollars in funding for its R&D (via the Leona…
This hexapod robot is controlled by an iPhone, via Apple iPhone's touch screen and accelerometer. This is a homegrown application for the iPhone was written by the video author, Robert Stephenson. The forward kinematics includes six degrees of freedom for body orientation and three DOF for its mo…
David Bowen has built a spectacular machine that prints 3D renderings tracking the different growth phases of an onion bulb. The idea may seem a little crazy, but we can see the results :-) As a matter of fact, this is art. The artist won a prize at the 13th Media Arts Festival in Japan. His …
