RoboBee The Wyss Institute at Harvard just unveiled the smallest robot capable of flight. The "RoboBee" weighs less than a gram and can steer, hover and take off by flapping its wings more than 120 time per second. As shown in the video below, it's quite stable and maneuvers well using its elec
Both Jawa Lunk and Scot Washburn have sent us some cool updates from the Wall-E builders group. For those not familiar with the Wall-E builder's group, it's an array of hobbiets that are building scale models of Wall-E, the star of the upcoming Pixar film about a robot named Wall-E.
UAV Proposal by Fresno Aerial Photography Nothing says "I love you" better than a robot, right? That's exactly what Jason thought when he proposed to his girlfriend Christina. Did she say "Yes!"?. Watch the video below to find out. We believe there are many cheesy ways of proposing but we
Petman tries on its new clothes PETMAN, the biped humanoid from Boston Dynamics, recently got to do its job: to test military clothing and equipment. As seen in the video below, the robot was given some clothes and equipment to test... and it did just that. It is very interesting to see the rob
Honda recently had a media extravaganza in which they demoed their recently announced "Stride/Bodyweight Assist Machine", an experimental device that aids human walking by reducing stress on joins and muscles. It's a cross between an exoskeleton and a chair - the former because it&…
Wow! This DIY robotic arm is clearly more interesting as an opponent than a simple computer. A chess player and developer in his spare time has tinkered with a Lynxmotion AL5A robotic arm programmed in Python in order to play him for hours on end. The arm moves the pieces by itself but considers…
Cubiebot, Filmmaker Robot Cubiebot, a little robot made from hobbyist robot parts and cardboard is directing and filming its own documentary. As a matter of fact, many of these filmmaker robots are on the loose interviewing humans about their relationships with other robots. As shown in the v
At RobotShop, we're lucky enough to see hexapod robots every day, but sometimes there are some hexapods which are more impressive than others. Mantis Giant Hexapod We recently discovered "Mantis", a 2.8m tall, two ton hexapod vehicle created by Micromagic Systems. The project took four years …
The Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2013 is currently taking place. The hacking marathon where participants compete to create the best cloud monitoring robotic application started on April 6th and will be ending on the 14th of the same month. So far 29 teams from all around the world are hard at w
You better read this post up to the end to get the scoop Cloud robotics is proving to be the most natural and efficient way to create and manage modern robotics technology. Robots are no longer limited to their physical, onboard components, instead, they are able to access an ever-broadening arr
This section is intended to provide you with an overview of the history of robotics. As you may have guessed, the history of robotics is intertwined with the history of technology, science and the basic principle of progress. Technology used in computing, electricity, even pneumatics and hydraul…
This is one of the most refreshing and clever uses of robotic technology that I've come across in a while - using robots to tend a tomato garden. The garden came about from the work of postdoc Nikolaus Correll who works in the MIT Distributed Robotics Lab and was part of an undergraduate cla…
BionicOpter by Festo Festo, the german automation company, recently unveiled its latest creation: BionicOpter, a robotic dragonfly. This new robot emulates the complex flight technique of a dragonfly and is capable of high manoeuvrability as shown in the video below. Once again, Festo uses bi
Update: The contest is now closed. I'll be gathering the entires and sending them to our judges over the next week or two. Stay tuned for a post announcing the winners. If you won I will also contact you via email. Thanks and good luck! The past few months have been a lot of fun, with us giv…
Here's a robot which should simplify things for those who serve shish kebab! (Or shish taouk in Montreal, a grilled chicken doner kebab.) The Kebab robot automatically slices the grilled meat just after the right length of time while turning it on the grill. It's equipped with a camera o…
The fascinating thing about robots is that we can get them to do anything... or almost. After the gymnast robot Hinamitetu with the fixed bar, now comes the acrobat robot on a ball. This prototype has 3 wheels to stabilize the yellow ball and works with two Gyroscopes. It's incredible what y…
