High school students in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) will soon be participating in the FIRST International Robotics Competition. For the occasion, Fusion Jeunesse has launched an invitation to the public for February 20 from 11:15 am to 2:00 pm at the Loyola High School located at 7272, rue Sherbro…
The video below is not brand new but it mentions 10 important points and advantages for companies considering investing in robotics. It's speaking mainly about industrial robots, but some of these arguments can also be applied towards professional robotics. Investing in robotics has a number of…
The Toy Fair 2010 this year seemed to be short in robot toys, but it had some good surprises up its sleeve. Jim Wyatt of MechRC has announced that his monkey robot will be available for sale this summer. The little monkey robot can be carried over the shoulderlike a companion and interacts with p…
Here is a telepresence prototype, a robot developed to see what the person wearing it is seeing. It wraps around the shoulders like a backpack equipped with an advanced video camera and a microphone. It may be useful for teleconferences, or if you need to talk on behalf of someone far away. This…
In Japan, "Street Marketing" is now handled by robots. A prototype is shown below distributing tissues to passers-by. It can very well replace the tissues with advertising cards for a company that wants visibility at a fair, for example. Interobots Inc developed the Mospeng-kun, a 1.20 m tall (…
iRobot, a world leader in robotics, announced today that it had sold its 3000th Packbot robot. Introduced for the first time in 2002, the PackBot is a Tactical Mobile Robot that allows military or civilian rescue teams to examine suspicious objects from a distance (such as bombs and bomb parcel…
Hasbro unveiled a toy version of Iron Man 2 at the 2010 Toy Fair. And this remote controlled miniature version of Iron Man equipped with lights, sounds, and projectiles does not hesitate to shoot the cameraman onsite :-) Price: somewhere around $ 50. It will be available in the fall of 2010 and i…
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) wants to develop an initiative to build a robotic hand which imitates the gestures of a human hand. Robert Mandelbaum, a manager at DARPA, explained that the research agency and robotics communities in recent years have focused on robots which mo…
You are going to be amazed by this drawing robot who can sketch your portrait just by looking at you. This Aikon2 Skediomata robotic arm was presented at the Kinetica Art Fair in London a few days ago. It uses a video camera to view facial features and then the "hand" reproduces them on a piece o…
Quasi "Q" robot is causing a big sensation at the Toy Fair 2010. This small concept robot from the Interbots company is controlled by a tablet PC. You can change the color of his eyes and move his arms and hands with a stylus. This is not his first public appearance (that was in 2006), his pre…
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
After Intel, now LG also has its mascot robot called Feeney (Korean: ?? ). And she even knows how to ski jump. This is a commercial for LG's Whisen brand which makes air conditioners. More info on the LG website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUbey0BgaRc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2_Rq6…
The Mint vacuum robot was presented at CES in Las Vegas in January. iRobot (Scooba) is about to have a serious competitor. A few days ago we told you about Neato Robotics, a super intelligent vacuum to compete against Roomba. Mint Evolution is a floor cleaning robot and it has the special featu…
We've just received the life-size replica of Robot B9 from the 1960's American TV program Lost in Space. This robot possesses more than 500 different custom phrases from Richard Tufeld, like the original B9 from the TV show. It is equipped with an animated top, lit fingers, animated receiver ear…
Zhu Zhu Pets from the Cepia company, is a small robot hamster which just won as 2010 toy of the year awarded by TOTY (Toy Industry Association's 2010 Toy of the Year Awards). By integrating artificial intelligence these miniature hamsters are capable of interacting with humans as well as explori…
Voix du Nord reports that teacher Olivier Cassez is going to participate in the Open International Championship in Taiwan with 8 of his students. This is the First Lego League which gathers participants from 60 countries and is an international contest where the aim is to present useful and cutt…
