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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…
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…
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.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…
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…
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 …
iRobot has just announced its first quarterly performance, on the increase compared to analysts' forecasts. The IRBT share took +33% in 1 single day, going from 15 to 20 dollars. The company reported gains of 24 cents per share for the first quarter in 2010 (Q1), while analysts were banking on…
What if there were no more cars on our streets in a few years and instead they were replaced by robots? In any case, that's the assertion of Stéphane Malandain, a compter science lecturer in Switzerland. And he's not talking about 40 years' time but well before. The streets will be fill…
A few days ago we introduced you to the 3D Webcam by Minoru 3 (click here for the direct link to the product) which has just arrived in store at RobotShop. We showed you a video of the Unboxing of this first commercial 3D camera. Aaron from Singularity Hub has written an excellent post about th…
If you wonder whether sporty robots will one day be able to compete with our best athletes, well we believe we already have a good start for a response on that. It's no longer a question of robots that play soccer by moving about slowly. The soccer players at the Robocup German Open 2010 have g…
RobotShop currently has a special promotion on Lawnbott robot mowers. Should you be the happy winner, this exceptional offer could let you win a complete refund of a Lawnbott Spyder if you buy one, or partial reimbursement of the value of the Lawnbott Spyder if you buy another Lawnbott model. I…
photos from botjunkie & Cnet Can robots perform as well as humans in sports? This is what the designers at Ziggy wanted to find out during the Robogames. The American football player Joe Nedney pitted his strength against Ziggy to hit the ball as far as possible and accurately. Even if …
The company iRobot has just signed a partnership with electronics manufacturer Jabil Circuit. The agreement concerns manufacturing services. Jabil will produce and test iRobot's consumer goods, which also includes the robot vacuum Roomba. Jeffrey Beck, branch manager of iRobot's domestic robot…
Have you ever seen a Roomba that Tweets? We've never! But, this CoolestRoomba Twitter account announces that a Roomba forgotten in the darkness of an old garage has finally found a home. Better yet, it is in the process of resuming its life and wants to talk to humans. Where? on Twitter... We…
The Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory in Stanford (VAIL) has presented to the press a prototype of a car which drives and parks all by itself. Botjunkie was on hand to report this video in which we see a Passat driving on its own and reversing in a parking lot. The ceremony took place i…
Here's a two-part video which will delight all robotics technicians. It shows us a complete dissection of a Roomba robot vacuum. The dissected model is from the Roomba 4000 series. The man behind this instructive video is Dino Segovis of Dinofab.com. The Roomba is one of the robots preferred by…
