This robotic hand is quite amazingly accurate. By the Ishikawa Komuro laboratory at the University of Tokyo, this hand prototype shows very promising reflexes and speed. With only three fingers, the hand can juggle with a straw, throw then catch a flying object (a cell phone here), hold and move…
Robonaut R2 is almost ready to take off for its space mission. The astronaut robot which will take off for the International Space Station at the end of 2010 is almost finalized and ready for liftoff. Robonaut R2 weighs 300 pounds, or about 136 kg. It is able to manipulate objects and perform…
It will have taken one year, 4 people and 30 000 dollars worth of LEGO to achieve this giant robotic chess game. 100 000 LEGO and NXT pieces have been used here to carry out this project. The giant chessboard measures about 16 m2, or 4 meters by 4 meters. There are 3 game modes: human against …
RobotErectus is a robot prototype of a soccer player which seems visibly ready for the soccer World Cup in South Africa :-) It shoots the ball, it can even pick the ball up from off the ground and throw it in, it jumps, it can move to the side and it can even bow to the crowd (surely after it's sc…
RobotShop blogs will have a new Microcontrollers category which will showcase the new corresponding products available in our online robot store (for example, the 32 bit microcontrollers here). Think back, we recently introduced you to the domino FEZ microcontroller by GHI Electronics. To mark …
Japan has just unveiled two new humanoid robot prototypes, M3-Kindy and Noby. -M3-Kindy is a 5 year old android weighing 27 kg with 42 degrees of freedom. The M3-Kindy robotic child is packed with sensors: more than 109 in total (including video camera eyes). It was developed with the aim of stu…
Ok folks, I know it's taken a while, but the results are finally in and we now have winners for the GoRobotics 10th anniversary giveaway! I'm super excited about this and very grateful to our prizes sponsors: Pololu Solarbotics , Vex Robotics, Apress, and No Starch Press. Before listing the w
Myon is a new humanoid robot designed by the industrial design studio, Frackenpohl Poulheim (in Cologne), and developed by the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The size of a 12 year old, Myon has the special ability to continue to operate even if some …
According to Physorg, a new breed of robots is in the process of making its appearance. The surveillance and maintenance of kilometers of electric lines is often a very long task, extremely costly and also dangerous for humans. A single one of these new robots can monitor 260 km of electric lin…
Here's a very special robotics development: Its 4 independent robots but which are capable of regrouping together to move and even fly off. Invented at the Swiss Federal Institute, these robots can communicate amongst themselves and know precisely their positions in relation to each other. Once…
The Laboratory of the Institute of Advanced Technology of Chiba in Japan is showing many videos of their prototypes on Youtube. There you can find a strange giant spider which transports a man sitting, a robotic mini crab as well as a flying butterfly species. It's exciting to discover: http:/…
Belvedere the Buttlerbot is a DIY robot based on the iRobot Create platform (Roomba base). It was made by a robotics enthusiast for his family and mainly for his son, Ethan (dancing in the photo above). Belvedare can avoid obstacles, serves food and drinks, talks, tells jokes and plays music. …
Qbo by The Corpora, an open source robot project that we told you about recently now has its own video channel on Youtube. An address to remember: http://www.youtube.com/user/QboRobot As a reminder, the Qbo by Francisco Paz aims to bring artificial intelligence to the home. http://www.youtube.…
This robotic quadruplet has certainly attracted attention at the Robo-One competition. Four robots attached to each other were the clowns and entertained the audience there. It's rare to see a robot be funny but it's pretty refreshing to watch. Here are the four Kondo humanoid robots. When did …
Emily, for Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, is a new life guard robot on Malibu beaches, ready to replace Pamela Anderson. The company Hydronalix specializes in marine robotics and is the manufacturer of it. This life guard robot is able to swim and save people from drowning 6 times fas…
The video is not recent but it is worth watching. This LEGO Mindstorms NXT walks all by itself on two legs like a human being, a little like Petman by Boston Dynamics. It shows once again that with LEGO Mindstorms you can do anything, or almost. Over to your screwdriver and bolts! :-) http://ww…
