On October 10, 2016, the Commercial Court of Rennes acknowledged that Robot Access Services engaged in passing off and unfair competition against RobotShop by operating robotshop35.com and ordered them to stop using this domain name with a penalty of €5,000 per week. The 27-page judgment detail
Gift Center 2016 Another great year has gone by and it's already time to think about buying gifts for friends and family for the holiday season. Need help finding the right gift for the robot enthusiast in your life? RobotShop is here to help with gift suggestions for this coming holi…
Who doesn’t want to be super intelligent, or amazingly strong or very fast or perhaps have added senses? We all know our five basic senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. There is a company that promises much about added senses and they are working hard on providing their first added sense…
More than 1000 humanoid robots (1007 to be exact) staged a dancing performance at the Qingdao Beer Festival in the eastern coastal province of Shandong in China, beating UBTECH's previous record of 540 robots.
RobotShop announces that it has recently partnered with UPS Mail Innovations in order to offer a flat shipping rate of $2.99 for delivery of packages of 1 lbs or less shipped within the United-States. UPS Mail Innovations is a low-cost shipping solution provided in collaboration with UPS and USPS. …
About two years ago, we had an unfortunate surprise. Our little five-year-old boy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Not only was the hit very hard on our family, but ten days later, our youngest son had developed the same disease (two out of three of our children). This post will explain how we i…
Arduino, the world’s leading open-source ecosystem for educators, Makers and IoT developers of all ages, today announced that Arduino LLC (aka Arduino.cc) and Arduino srl (aka Arduino.org) have settled their differences and signed a settlement agreement.
The main purpose of this "how-to" article it is to guide you on how to make a convenient and elegant modular GSM or 3G hardware platform using an Arduino Pro Mini (and related) board, a j-328GSM3GLader Arduino Pro Mini adapter board and c-uGSM / d-u3G / h-nanoGSM modem shields. The purpose of a p…
Mobile devices need power, and when it comes to electricity, LiPo is currently the most popular choice, but will it last? Researchers at UC Irvine have stumbled upon a battery technology which allows for a near infinite number of charging cycles without significant corrosion or decline in capacity.
Everyone has been eager to know when the LIDAR-Lite would return to market, so we are very happy to announce it is now available for pre-order: LIDAR-Lite v3. The second thing everyone was insistent on asking was: "Will this work with my previous setup/project/custom mounting/etc.?". I…
In this sixth and final installment of the "Make Your Own Arduino-Powered Deskbot Pal" you’ll discover ways to enhance your Desktop Pal by adding more sensors and other hardware. As a bonus, you’ll also learn how to implement a compact MP3 player to play recorded music and sound effects!
This online contest’s theme is mBot Rescue Robot. Contestants must design their own rescue robots based on the MakeBlock mBot, which can be used in some rescue scenarios. Open to ages 10-16. Many prizes!
Desktop Pal is an animatronic friend, powered by an Arduino-compatible microcontroller and a small assortment of basic sensors. Using two servos for movement, Pal’s head moves up and down and side to side, reacting to objects that come nearby. In this installment you’ll learn how to program the De…
A common question concerning our Wheatstone bridge amplifier shield is "How can we stack two together with three or four load cells?" This is actually quite simple and only requires a few components...
In the 21th century, the transmission of the information is probably the area that has had the greatest increase in terms of use and progress. The most important aspect that has led to this improvement is the speed of transmission (the time that it take for information to go from one end to the oth…
As a follow-up to our previous article "Future Robot Technology", we are excited to see that researchers at Harvard University have unveiled a true bio-mechanical creation, a robotic stingray that reacts to light.
