Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently Intelligent Smart Human Author Lynn Messina imagined a world where robots are the norm and humans are convenient appliances to do menial chores around the house. In her book Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently Intelligen
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Humanoid robots are becoming larger and more capable, and the prices are dropping every year, contributing to the dramatic increase in popularity. Since we are privileged to have access to the most popular ones, including the Bioloid, DARwIn OP, Nao, and Robokind, we created the picture below so y
Season’s greetings everyone! It’s been an incredible year. I am grateful to be surrounded by such a great team and also to be part of this exciting adventure which is RobotShop and the robotic revolution. We have accomplished many things this year, all with the objective of fulfilling ou
First Up... If you want to find out what Wavefront Mapping is all about head over to the Society of Robots Tutorial. It has a great wtite up and its where I first learnt about it. Basic's done, So lets talk about Map size limits.....The Arduino 2560 & 1280 both have 8k of SRAM (where the m…
Minds + Machine TV Add General Electric has released what might be the most epic robot-themed TV ad ever. Take a look below. The ad features many well known real robots as well as robots from science-fiction. The fictional robots include Robbie, B-9 (Lost in Space), the original K.I.T.T.
Pinokio Face Tracking Lamp Students from Victoria University (Toronto, Canada) created a real-life version of the Disney Pixar lamp and called it "Pinokio". This playful robot can detect and track faces and also express emotions using its movements and reactions. It uses servo motors to actuate …
MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printers are types of robots that are revolutionizing the manufacturing sector. They make product creation accessible to (almost) everyone by taking care of the precise and often cost-prohibitive work involved in building a physical object. In the same way regular com…
Autom Diet Robot Autom is a small companion robot created by Intuitive Automata. Its main goal is to encourage people to have a healthy diet, and exercise regularly with the objective of loosing weight and staying healthy. This robot uses its social capabilities, which include speech and eye-
Black Friday Sale In order to thank you all for being happy RobotShop customers, we are offering you a great promotion for this year's Thanksgiving holiday. From Friday, November 22nd, to Monday, November 26th, you can get a total value of 70$ for free when ordering the Neato XV-21 Thanksgiving bu…
New Apps on the MyRobots App Store Lynxmotion, the popular robotic kit manufacturer, just made all of their robotic applications available via the MyRobots App Store. Their applications are mainly used for controlling servo motors using their popular SSC-32 servo motor controller, and for makin
CIROS Robot Cuts Cucumber The Korean Institute of Science and Technology had the very good (read "terrible") idea of giving a very sharp kitchen knife to a robot and teaching it how to use it. Fortunately until now, CIROR, the knife-wielding humanoid robot, can only cut cucumbers with its new too
Nigel Ackland uses bionic hand to pour beer Nigel Ackland had the misfortune of losing his hand in an accident. He is now the proud owner (and tester) of a BeBionic3 robot hand. This bionic prosthesis senses the electrical activity in his arm muscles and activates gripping or wrist rotating a
RobotShopTV Youtube Channel We are happy to announce that our YouTube channel RobotShopTV got over one million views! It makes us happy and proud to know that you are watching our videos. Below you can see one of our latest videos for your enjoyment. Head to our channel for more robotic
New RoboticApp Apps The creative minds behind RoboticApp recently released new versions of their popular applications with new functionality - and made them available via the MyRobots App Store. RoboChat: received an update and still provides interaction with your iRobot Roomba using a cha…
HUBO holding a powertool We reported on the DARPA Humanoid Challenge before, but now we finally have a video that shows what would be the ideal winner of the contest, as imagined by the Universities behind the HUBO humanoid robot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3gnPp97jD8 Of course this is just…
