Every technology can be understood and recreated by anyone once they are clear with its fundamental operation. One such technology I am going to deal with is the Autonomous vehicle/Robot. Most of the beginners think (as I did when I was a beginner) that only master minded Engineers and Scientists …
The Winbot 730 from Ecovacs finally arrived and is available for immediate shipment. Want to know more about this robot? We opened up a brand new robot just for you. The Winbot 730 is part of a new line of window cleaners that does not need two halves that hold together with permanent magnets. S…
ASIMO working at museum In the past, ASIMO's public performances have heavily monitored by humans and orchestrated by hidden operators. With the hope of rendering the robot more autonomous, Honda has partnered with Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation to create an interacti…
Instructable user randofo created a seed spreading robot by using a Lynxmotion Tri-Track kit and various other robot parts. Grass-seeds Spreading Robot In this instructable, randofo details the building process quite well including pictures and quite a humorous tone. He details, the mechanica…
A month ago, South Korea deployed its first armed robots to its demilitarized zone. The robots can detect moving targets but do not open fire automatically. Which is rather relieving since they are equipped with 40mm grenade launchers and high-speed machine guns. Korean Sen…
Atlas going for a ride We covered previously the announcement of the 2013 DARPA Robotic Challenge. Today, DARPA released two very interesting videos: one presenting Atlas, the official humanoid platform for the challenge developed by Boston Dynamics, and another introducing the other contestant
The Linux way of getting a sandwich Besides loving robots, we love to eat sandwiches. So when we see robots making sandwiches that we can (probably) eat it makes us really happy. How to make us even happier? Make those robots DIY and made from parts you can find at RobotShop. The robot…
RobotShop recently partnered with 3D Robotics / DIY Drones a manufacturer of open-source UAVs, founded in 2009 by Chris Anderson and Jordi Munoz. 3D robotics is popular for three main reasons: Their UAV flight controllers and software have been developed with the community and hav…
La programmation est généralement la dernière étape concernant la fabrication d'un robot. Si vous avez suivi les leçons, vous avez à présent choisi les actionneurs, l'électronique, les capteurs et autres, et vous avez assemblé…
Today, we announce we secured an additional 100,000 square feet of land (highlighted in yellow in the picture below) that is adjacent to the 60,000 square we already own, totaling more than 160,000 square feet (3.67 acres). RobotShop Land RobotShop is maintaining a strong growth yea…
Grishin Robotics Dmitry Grishin, co-founder and chairman of Mail.ru, one of the largest internet companies in Russia, recently launched Grishin Robotics. The Russian tycoon is now following his dream of working towards the creation of personal robots. Our planet has not seen revolution…
Watch the speed and accuracy of this industrial robotic arm. Developed by MIMIX Motion, this Delta (a parallelogram) robot has 4 axes that converge into one where the gripper is located. The latter always stays correctly orientated in the same way thanks to 4 arms (we talk about a parallel robot…
RobotShop has received several robot kits from the manufacturer, Roboblock. Firstly, the Roboblock Spider Hexapod Kit. With 6 legs, this robot comes unassembled. It has 18 servo motors in the legs and can achieve 180 degrees of freedom in total. It has a 128 kilobyte memory. -Roboblock Quadrup…
Anki DRIVE Earlier this week Anki, a new robotics company, was introduced at the Apple WWDC 2013 by Apple CEO Tim Cook. "Anki uses iOS devices and the iOS platform to bring artificial intelligence and robotics into our daily lives." -Tim Cook Anki is launching Anki DRIVE, a physical gaming
For the second year in a row, RobotShop is among the fastest growing companies in Canada, ranking 151st according to the 25th Annual PROFIT 500 ranking. Profit 500 Awards The companies on this year’s PROFIT 500 are a breed apart; they dominated their markets, employed thousands and grew expone
MyRobots.com The MyRobots.com cloud monitoring service is officially FREE! All references to the initial token system (where payment would be required for data transfer) were removed on May 31st. This means that the current data transfer and storage service will remain free for all. Addit…