In an heroic effort to learn everyday household skills, this robot arm form the Italian Institute of Technology has learned the indispensable pancake flipping skill every robot needs (as thought by Dr Petar Kormushev andDr Sylvain Calinon). Despite the great difficulty of this task (who hasn't w
Bielefeld University has unveiled their humanoid robot which features curiosity and learning capabilities. The Roboter asks what an object is by pointing at it with its Shadow Hands and learns the objects name and grasping pattern from a human trainer. The robots features curiosity in the sense tha
RobotGrrl has been busy refurbishing an old robot of hers. It is not the first time that her Technorobot has changed jobs: it has been an emotional line follower prototype, a snowplow, and now it became an XBee messenger robot. Refurbishing it was OK, it only took 4 hours. The only thing that w
Clinton Blackmore form the Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts club put together some pretty neat software to control Lego NXT motors and sensors by using the Arduino microcontroller. Lego NXT robot Controlled by Arduino As shown in the video below, he is using the Mindsesors Multiplexer for NX…
Ecobot III, the eating and pooping robot Robots are becoming highly advanced and, in an effort to become energetically independent, they now poop. Ecobot III is a robot capable of extracting energy from food by digesting it and ultimately getting rid of the leftover waste (i.e. it poops). It wa
GoRobotics.net goes RobotShop Today is a great day in the history of GoRobotics.net. This year (which also marks the 10 year anniversary of GoRobotics.net), RobotShop has taken on the mission of continuing the legacy or Mr. William Cox, the founding father of GoRobotics.net, by maintaini
What is better to promote a "green lifestyle" than a giant robot? A giant Optimus Prime made from old car junk. Optimums Prime made from junk This jaw dropping sculpture weights 6 tons and stands 10m tall. it features the very well known and beloved Optimus Prime from the Transformers series. I
Playful funny Robots are loose in the streets of Montreal as part of the Just For Laughs Festival 2010. Androids in Montreal Do not worry, the robot invasion and occupation has not started yet, we can still enjoy a few extra years of freedom. These, so called, Androïdes are actually humans in d
Long time ago, about 5 years I think, I started looking up DIY CNC machines. I bought the 4 axis EZ Driver combo kit from Hobby CNC, together with the CNC plan they had at the time. But I didn't had time to order the acme screws and linear bearings and I left USA and returned to Romania. Over there…
Earlier HERB Intel has been developing for some time a Home Exploring Robotic Butler (HERB, for the relatives). It features, among other things, two Barrett arms with grippers (since it was upgraded from the previous one-armed version) , a Segway RPM base, and a Hokuyo UTM-30LX Scanning Laser
Life-sized Gundam Statue All Nippon Airways (ANA) has created a custom jet displaying a life-sized Gundam painting on one side and the Gundam logo on the other. This, along with the giant (life-sized) Gundam statue and a Gundam Café in Tokyo, has been created in order to commemorate the 30th a
As announced previously, the Neato Robotics XV-11 is now available for pre-order at RobotShop. The first shipments of the XV-11 will begin in August. You can find it along its robot vacuum friends on the RobotShop catalogue. The demand for these little smart vacuum cleaning robots will be very h
Little Bird Unmanned Full-sized Chopper The Little Bird, a full-sized autonomous helicopter made its first flight last June. For the first time, a full sized autonomous robot performed an entire flight (including take-off, obstacle avoidance, and landing) by itself. The helicopter is a modified
BAE Taranis UCAV The Taranis is an Unmanned Combat Aircraft System (UCAS) developed by BAE Systems for the UK military. This stealth "swept delta" aircraft is intended to be fully autonomous and look utterly awesome. Although test flights are programmed to start in 2011, it is important to note th…
BEAR by Vecna Robotics The Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot (BEAR) is a new robot for the US military intended to rescue wounded soldiers in an active battlefields. It has been developed by Vecna Robotics form in Cambridge, MA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMIU-5fJd6A This robot is much
Bina48 Interview New York times reporter Amy Harmon has recently interviewed Bina48 a humanoid robotic bust that can have human-like conversation with other humans. Chat robots have been around for a while and started with the famous A.L.I.C.E. In the past, people could chat with these robots tho
