As a complement to our article yesterday on iRobot's future strategy in personal assistants, here's a video of the company's CEO, Colin Angle, at TEDMED 2009. It's a "must see" for those who follow the company closely. Concerning medical assistance to the elderly or increasingly dependent, it's e…
If there's a new current trend in cars, excluding the ecological aspect and "green car", it's the number of tests and ideas of robotic cars which are appearing. Volkswagen has invented a car prototype (a robotic Passat) that reverse parks all by itself, and while executing a controlled slide if yo…
Here's a little poll we just put up on our discussion forum: Which Cyborg ability would you want the most? (= In French: Quelle super-capacité d'un Cyborg souhaiteriez-vous avoir ?) -super strength -armor/resistance to injury -returned use of lost limb(s) (following illness/amputation) -increased
image foxnews Some underwater robots have helped to lay the huge concrete and steel cover on the leak of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The cover measures 12 meters in height and was placed 1500 meters deep, guided by robots. It's hoped that the oil spill, failing disappearing, will stop spreading…
Albert is a robot which has been developed by engineering students at the University of Liège in Belgium. Albert will represent Belgium at the end of May in a competition organized by Eurobots in Switzerland. The students who previously finished in 27th place hope this time to rank among…
On Friday evening the We Are Robots techno-dance night took place at the ETS Montreal and SAT. We've already found two videos of the event which featured dancing industrial robots (robotic arms) by the ABB Robotics company. Here's a glimpse of the evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p0Px3vB…
RobotShop has just received in stock the pool cleaning robot, Nitro, by Smartpool. We've received two models: -the Smartpool Nitro Wall Climber Robot Pool Cleaner. It cleans the pool floor (75% of its time) and the vertical sides (25% of its time). It also possesses technology which allows…
The Let's Make Robots internet site is in the process of integrating the complete catalog of RobotShop. LMR now claims to have thousands of components available for creating robots! And this is in part thanks to our extensive inventory, a full range of parts and accessories for service robots (…
The cyborgs are already among us! Here's a fantastic info graphic image which recounts the life of cyborgs in the cinema. To recall, a cyborg is a human who has robotic parts otherwise known as a bionic man, like Robocop for example. The poster shows that cyborgs have been on the big screen sinc…
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…
