Spring is here and summer is just around the corner. Are you dreading mowing the lawn? Robot lawn mowers have been around for some time now, and almost all of them operate the same way. However, in the Spring of 2009 we all witnessed the latest revelation in lawn mowing technology with the Spyder…
HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler by Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, is now able to Microwave meals completely autonomously as illustrated in the video below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k715Rd9mJJw For those of you not familiar with this robot, allow him to introduce himself in t
Behold a compilation of highly scientific tests conducted by our highly skilled engineers. These thorough experiments show Roomba, Neato, and other robot vacuums attempting tasks and undergoing tests that will potentially make our human lives more enjoyable. If you ever wondered if your Roomba
Buy the Neato Robotics XV-11 at RobotShop.com Neato Robotics, the maker of the awesome Neato XV-Series Robots just closed a deal for12.2M$ in funding from strategic partners including Vorwerk Ventures, and Noventi Ventures. "The funding is a strong vote of confidence from our current investor
DARPA Robotic Challenge The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military, issued a new challenge to all roboticists of the world to create a new generation of Rescu
We are proud to announce the MyRobots Connect, an Ethernet-to-serial gateway, is now in stock! With this module you can easily connect your robots to the web by using wireless serial communication via XBee. What is this, why do I care? MyRobots makes it possible for smart devices and connected robo…
Neato XV-21 There is a new member in the Neato Robotics family: the XV-21. Beside sporting funky colors, this new model has an improved filter capable of retaining fine dust and particles while maintaining a high airflow, and a unique brush that combines bristles with the original rubber flap
Oddwerx Ike And Lucy Oddwerx, produced by OLogic Inc is a very impressive and very capable smartphone robotic platform. The platform is compatible with all the major software development platforms including MyRobots.com, Android, IOS and ROS. This robot even won the California Cloud Robotics Ha
Happy Easter to all robots and all humans! As seen below, robot manufacturer Clearpath Robotics has been having some Easter fun with a few TurtleBots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jagdw-G3mU
Project Glass by Google Google is at it again and is giving us a peek at another mind-blowing project! Project: Glass, from the Secret Lab Google X aims to create an augmented reality mobile interface that will enable us to get on-the-go information by superimposing it on top of our field of vi
Robots can be used in almost any situation and are primarily intended to help humans in some way, shape or form. If you are unsure of what you want your robot to do or simply want to concentrate your efforts on specific tasks, here are some ideas: Amusement & Companionship Building a …
We love to see robotics used to enable humans to regain their lost abilities and freedom. See how a Google self-driving car enables a blind man to drive again and do whatever he feels like doing (even going to get a taco). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE This shows the true potent
This blog is dedicated to build a Rubik's cube solving robot. I'll not give you any guarantee to even update this blog or finish it. I just want to share and discuss some ideas.The first thing I did was to buy 3 Rubik's cubes at taobao.com (a kind of Chinese Ebay), each around 10 RMB. I bough…
When we think about cloud robotics, we understand it consist of off-loading the computationally intensive tasks from a robot to a more powerful external resource that will process the data and send an answer or instructions on what to do back to the robot. We usually envision this computational o
Research underway in higher education (colleges, universities and graduate laboratories) as well as government and private labs will form the basis of tomorrow's toys, domestic robots and more! If you encounter a dead link, or have found that content linked to from these pages is inappropriate, ple…
The giant Internet retailer Amazon announced earlier this week the acquisition of Kiva Systems, the creators of a ground-breaking robotic order fulfillment system. The transaction will amount to a whooping 775 M$. See the video below to have a better understanding of why Amazon believes this ro
