Fun robotic happenings such as movies, art installations and performances, music, and more.
Medusa Project - Draft A few months ago, Eric Pinkel contacted RobotShop/Lynxmotion and myself asking if we wanted to be a consultant for their big VTail Medusa project. Very interested and amazed by the work already done by Eric and his team, we immediately stepped in to help whenever
Some of you may have hear about Scout -- The Autonomous Transatlantic Robot. She is a 12-foot long robotic solar-powered boat designed and built by 7 college/university students from the USA. She was launched in August 2013 from Rhode Island and programmed to autonomously cross the Atlantic Ocean…
M3CANUM DOG Project We're always curious what our customers do with the parts they purchased. Dimitri Dekyvere was kind enough to share a video of the versatile LEGO robot he created using the new EV3 construction system along with LEGO compatible Mecanum wheels. The M3CANUM DOG is a very co…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software, and the branch of computer science that develops machines and software with intelligence. Source: Wikipedia Do you remember HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's “2001: A Space Odyssey”? This supposedly infallible c
Nao Celebrates the Holidays Nao, the popular humanoid robot, has some holiday wishes for all humans as shown in the video below. We understand that it is not the new year yet, so for those who want to keep celebrating Christmas, we invite you to sing Jingle bells rock along with the li…
Sid Interactive Robot Arm Game "Sid" is Si digital's latest interactive remotely-controlled robotic arm. According to their website: "Sid was created as one of our many hack weeks here at Si digital. The underlying objective is always to create something as a team that we wouldn't normally ge…
Christmas season is just around the corner, and it's time to send Santa your gift list. Why not select robotic gifts to help with household chores, to play, to build or even to experiment with. Here's our top suggestions for robotic gifts for 2013. We've featured 10 great ideas that will make excel…
Usually when you think about "robot videos", you think about blockbuster movies like Transformers, Wall-E, Short Circuit, Real Steel and others. You would be surprised however to see just how many free robot-themed animated / CGI short movies are out there, many of which could easily be misconstrue…
Fast Rubik's Cube Robot Everybody has seen a Rubik's Cube solving robot. They usually do a great job at it but, although they are faster than average humans, a trained human can usually beat them in terms of speed. This new robot solves the cube not only in the most efficient way possibl…
Making replicas of robots seen in movies is not uncommon and there are many replicas of R2D2, Wall-E and Jonny 5 to name a few. Many of these incorporate a high level of detail while being faithful to the original robot's look and feel.
Robocop 2014 The trailer for the upcoming RoboCop movie has recently been released and it provides a glimpse as to the new movie's plot. True to the original, the remake depicts a wounded police officer who is brought back to life with what seems to be very advanced full-body prosthetics. This e…
While our neighbors in the USA use drones for warfare and spying, here in Canada we have other types of applications for UAVs that address other types of peace-disturbing assailants: geese. If there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Goosebusters! Steve Wambolt was …
Owning a 3D printer can be lots of fun and opens up a lot of possibilities for fabricating objects. However, if you want to print an object, you need to design it in a CAD program. This is a limitation that Volumental is trying to remove. By making it easy to scan objects (even people) and getting …
The Linux way of getting a sandwich Besides loving robots, we love to eat sandwiches. So when we see robots making sandwiches that we can (probably) eat it makes us really happy. How to make us even happier? Make those robots DIY and made from parts you can find at RobotShop. The robot…
Fake Google Driverless Car F.A.T. played a practical joke on Manhattan residents recently by creating a fake Google driverless / autonomous car and "autonomously" roaming the streets. They displayed terrible driving skills (even staged some accidents), and acted as offensively as they could. See…
UAV Proposal by Fresno Aerial Photography Nothing says "I love you" better than a robot, right? That's exactly what Jason thought when he proposed to his girlfriend Christina. Did she say "Yes!"?. Watch the video below to find out. We believe there are many cheesy ways of proposing but we
