In order to promote its robotic vacuum cleaners in Korea , LG has decided to organize a soccer tournament. The tournament will be held on May 16 and should have 32 teams participating. The remote-controlled vacuum robots will be used like soccer players. Registration is open until April 30. Al…
A robotic teddy bear has been developed by the Fujitsu Research Institute in Japan. The prototype still has no name but could soon be used in hospitals for psychological support and as a companion. The bear can recognize patients' facial expressions thanks to its camera and responds accordingly…
Hiroshi Ishiguro has just created a second version of its Geminoid humanoid robot: the Geminoid F (for 'female'). This female robot is a copy of an attractive woman in her 20s. Unlike the first Geminoid, it only has 12 servo motors in its face (50 for the H1) and 46 degrees of freedom for her bo…
James Corrigan is 72 years old and is a patient robot especially designed for nurses. The University of Houston-Victoria in America has decided to acquire this human simulator. As Victoria Advocate says, this robotic patient is dying of lung cancer but with a quick reboot he'll be all better. In …
What if robots could prepare themselves a nice family dinner? That's what we can see in this video; no humans are involved. The domestic robot lights the candles for four guest robots, uncorks a bottle of wine and tends the table! And why not eat some bread, some salad and beets after prayer - )…
Honda has just developed a little fun gadget to put on your desktop: the Asimo Widget. This little robotic widget is placed on your computer desktop and displays the latest news from Honda as well as provides a memo function for taking notes. You also see Asimo walking around on your screen, it…
Lapassarada Thanaphant has paid out 927 000 US dollars to equip her Japanese restaurant with robots waiters. And what robots! The photos were taken on April 1st during the opening ceremony of the Hajime restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. Hopefully it's not an April's fool... (the robots seem pre…
It's not an April's fool. A Japanese company has created a chick robot which imitates a real 3-day old chick. Actually, it's a little domestic companion for kids or big kids :-) It responds to touch, flaps its tiny wings and lets out little chirps when you ignore it. More info on SegaToys. …
This little Facebook Penguin robot Pingo My Desk Friend has just arrived at RobotShop and is already selling like hot cakes! We were telling you about it just a month ago here (see the info + demo videos). It's made by the Swiss company, Arimaz. Its features include announcing new emails from …
According to Industrie.com, the Swiss-Swedish company, ABB, has launched a touchpad allowing the guided repair and maintenance of robots. This tablet PC allows all minor operations to be carried out without necessarily using a technician on site. It explains in detail the procedure to follow in…
Recently we talked about Stats Monkey, the automated program capable of replacing a sports journalist. And now we have the life-size journalist robot. It can move independently, interview people, take photos, conduct internet research and post articles online. The jobs of journalists and blog…
Pirobot is a robot prototype which can focus on a ball of a specific color until it gets it and then concentrates on a second ball. In the video below, Pirobot only sees the green ball; it follows it with its eyes (with its camera) until it can finally hold it in its hands. Immediately afterwa…
The Dagu robotic gripper is one of our newest products on sale at RobotShop. It's a gripper which comes pre-assembled. It's powered by two servo motors with 2.3kg/cm of torque at 6V and 1.8kg/cm at 4.8V. The gripper opens to a maximum of 5 cm. CLICK HERE TO ORDER OR VIEW MORE DETAILS ON OUR O…
We've already introduced you to PR2 in the past, the open-source robotic platform by Willow Garage. Recently we saw that the PR2 was able to autocalibrate on its own. Well, now it can also fold the laundry! The PR2 faced the test of folding 50 towels and succeeded with 100%. For now it only fold…
Hobbymedia.it, an Italian blog has mentioned in a post how their Japanese friend Zak created a small robot hack of the manga HoiHoi-san figure. The little plastic doll has been completely assembled (kit toy) by adding wires and Microcontrollers to it. The end result is a small autonomous robo…
Botmag aka Robot Magazine now has an account on Twitter. You can follow it on: twitter.com/Robot_Magazine Robot Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine in the United States, whose first issue was released in 2003. It addresses mainly topics such as robot manufacturing, education, events and robotics…
