Tag Archive for 'robots'
Who needs another distraction? Having to work from home most of the time, I have plenty distraction even when I’m in my home office alone – but a little distraction doesn’t hurt when it could releases you from tense working hours. So why not put a WowWee Chatterbot on your desk?
video of quick demo after [...]
Sylvain Calinon is a teacher, but his student doesn’t have to stop in the afternoon for milk, cookies and a nap. That’s because Calinon is teaching a small robot, in this case various kinesthetic and learning skills. And in the end, the robot could be making the cookies on its own - the [...]
Although this vacuum is definitely no Roomba, it is still pretty cool. Straight from Perpetual Kid, this cute little robot will lie in wait ready to spring into action and sweep up your crumbs.
Robots are picking up quickly, just take a look at this little bugger which managed to go into a more or less unexplored silver mine in San Jose and scan the whole thing. It was equipped with a laser scanner and made more than 80 scans a day creating over 100 million data points that [...]
This little robotic arm comes as a kit that requires some assembly, but once its done you get this badass robotic arm. It can pick up a maximum of 100 grams, it grasp items up to 1.7-inches in diameter, and even has an LED light for night time use.
Massive software is at CeBIT this year, now you might be wondering why we are writing about a software company, that would be because they have decided to start applying their talents to robots. In fact, their display has a robot showing off their new AI software that allows the robot to intelligently learn and [...]
Personally, I am sick and tired of seeing the stupid commercial for the cartoon featuring this little robot, but I do like the robot. Maybe not quite enough to gather up my GameCube, some Plexiglas, tubes, rods, plastic, metal, and acrylic paint and think to myself “hmm, this seems like a good idea”.
The VEX RCR Mini is actually a platform for robotics to enhance education among science, technology, engineering, and math. The two robots pictured are just what some people came up with.
Our friend Judy over at GearDiary was lucky enough to get a Ugobe Pleo for review not and she just posted the final review. If you are interested in buying one, I’d recommend you hop on over to her site and read the whole thing.
Sure, his intended purpose is to help lost or confused shoppers, but if this little creeper comes up behind me and asks if I need any help in a Johnny Number 5 voice, I’m going to need more help than directions can give. And if he does it in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, I’ll be [...]
