After months of trying, NASA is calling it quits on freeing the Spirit rover from the Martian sand that it's been stuck in since May of 2009. Â Unfortunately, after six years of tireless service, the end might be very near for the rover, which faces a severe Martian winter in its current positio
This Lego Mindstorm Scorpion closely monitors the candy in a supermarket and it quietly warns with a sting whoever tries to take them. It has a hidden camera. Nothing new, but it is worth a second look if you have not seen it. In the same category, when will the robot watchdog to monitor our hom…
A T800 Terminator took over a tattoo parlor in Switzerland (Ethno Tattoo). This T800 is one of the only replicas in the world to be metal-built, others were resin. Its creator applied the drawings used in the movie, and the Terminator was built to the last detail. This is something that makes …
Planet-Science's Robotics Trophies have been held annually in France since 1993 (except in 2006 when they were held in Belgium). Participants are aged between 7 and 18 years, in teams of two (driver and co-driver), and their mission is to build wire-controlled play robots. The focus and learnin…
Robotics Trends announces the first-ever Robotics Summit Virtual Conference to be held June 16, 2010 over the Internet. The summit, which lasts for one full day, will gather the top Robotics and Intelligent Systems industry speakers and will only be online through several video conferences and c…
The South Korean Institute Kitech (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology), has developed a housecleaning robot. Its code name: SeRoPi. SeRoPi has 3 degrees of freedom in the neck, 3 in size, 6 x 2 in both arms, 2 in the hands, and 1 the knee. This robot picks objects off the ground, puts th…
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…
In the picture from top-left, clockwise to bottom-left: the terminal block (24V power up to 13A), the 2 X-axis drivers, the Y-axis driver (blue heat sink), and the Z-axis driver (blue heat sink), the Arduino controller (direction x3/enable x3/step x3), and just below the terminal block there is…
Hugo Cabret is a graphic novel illustrated with 284 photos (and 511 pages) that tells the story of a young orphan cared by his uncle. Hugo wants to continue the work of his father to bring a robot back to life. The young boy repairs clocks in a busy Parisian railway station, and secretly succeed…
The Hinamitetu Japanese robot is a robot that performs gymnastics on the horizontal bar, and it's really amazing to watch! Soon, if the trend continues, we will earn a place in the World Robot Gymnastics Championships. On the YouTube channel: youtube.com/user/hinamitetu Our gymnast has improved,…
The Bioloid is an autonomous robot capable of climbing a wall. Notice the size accuracy: it is not a sequence that the robot has learned by heart, but a fully autonomous and improvised development according to the data and the supports that it sees in front of it. The robot is based on the X-Y p…
Diego-San is the fruit of the imagination and the Development of Japanese researchers. The picture shows Dr. Javier Mogellan from the Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD. The baby measures 4.2 feet high (1.30 m) and weighs 30kg. He has more than 20 moving parts in his body. It can stand alon…
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…
Visit our online drugstore and Buy Clomid Online from us. Where can I Buy Nolvadex Online? The famous underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle), Jason, which was integral in discovering the wreck of the Titanic and other famous ships, recently captured a spectacular underwater volcano eruption…
