From the same folks that brought us the Wild World of Robots, comes the Cyborgs On The Screen infographic. Full graphic after the jump. Cyborgs on the screen
BeetleCam BeetleCam is a remote photography project of African wildlife by Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas. The two brothers have placed a Canon 400D DSLR camera with two flashes on a robotic mobile base which is controlled remotely. The images reported are superb. However, there was a smal…
Botropolis has made a nice compilation of photos showing paper robots (or cardboard to be exact). Making the robots is free, except that you have to print the model with a color printer if possible. This type of scale model is available all over the web for collectors; you just need to search a l…
What is projet Romeo? It's a 10 million euro project led by the French company, Aldebaran Robotics, which aims to create an assistant robot for the elderly, people with reduced mobility and the visually impaired. It has received 4.9 million euros of funding from the DGCIS (General Directorate f…
RobotShop has just received the Genesi EFIKA MX Open Client, a very small but very powerful micro computer. It can be used as a central controller for a robot. It's barely the size of two packets of playing cards. The Genesi has 512 MB of RAM, 4GM of SSD hard disk, Bluetooth, WiFi, 100 MBit …
RobotShop.com has just put in place a LawnBott robot lawn mower financing package for 48 American states. RobotShop offers financing of 3 months without interest thanks to its credit partner, Access Equipment & Financing. Then a rate of 12.99%. When the promotion is available you'll see the…
The manufacturers of industrial robots have seen a sharp increase in their activity for the first quarter of 2010 in the United States. The number of orders jumped +16% while billing on sales skyrocketed by 30% for the first quarter of the year. The comparison is made with the same quarter last…
The Citoen C4 robot is not new but here's a little compilation of this advertising gem for those who've never seen it on TV or don't live in France. The concept: to design a pretty cool transformer robot that dances then metamorphoses into its original state, a car. The advertising has been done …
RobotShop.ca has a special promotion on for Aquabot swimming pool cleaning robots. If you order your pool cleaning robot before August 31, 2010, you'll automatically be in with a chance of winning the value of the Aquabot Pool Cleaner Junior. Better still! If you order this Aquabot Pool Cleaner J…
photo wikipedia Rodney Brooks, robotics professor at MIT and cofounder of the iRobot company in 1990, has received the highest distinction from SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers). Brooks has received Honorary Membership. SME is a professional organization of engineers created in 1932 in …
After the excellent choreography of the best of hexapod robots in 2009, now here's the Best of 2010. These 6 legged robots have soul and move to the beat. Moreover, it's a popular phenomenon since other robots will dance to the rhythm of electronic music this Friday night in Montreal, in WE ARE R…
Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw, two researchers at Simon Fraser University have developed a telephone robot capable of walking, expressing emotions and even being used as a telepresence robot. Callo, which is 23 cm tall, is mounted on a Nokia cell phone. It has two arms, legs and can even dance. Y…
The oldest brand of soda by Uncle Sam (1885), Dr Pepper, has decided to make a joint commercial with Iron Man. In it we see an employee in the middle of cleaning when his name is called by a voice. Then comes a rapid transformation with a robotic bodysuit, like in the Iron Man 2 film. But no s…
Willow Garage, whose progress we cover on this blog, just announced the eleven recipients of its PR2 robot. The PR2 robot is an open source robot which is characterized by a hardware platform (Personal Robot 2) with an ROS (Robot Operating System) open source software application. Willow Garage …
The Osaka Institute of Technology has created a humanoid robot called JoiTech. The robot which is almost as tall as a man - between 1.30 m and 1.60 m - has been designed with the aim of playing football. It made its first appearance at the Japanese 2010 Robocup. JoiTech has 22 degrees of freed…
Do you remember the acrobat robot? Now here's another more advanced version with BallP which can even withstand heavy loads without falling. BallP, which is 51 cm tall (20 inches) and weighs 7.5 kg (16.5 pounds), balances on a ball with the help of 3 stabilizer wheels, gyroscopes, micro-control…
