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NAO: A Robot with a Heart Powered by Intel

, Mar 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel and Aldebaran have collaborated to created NAO, a robot with a heart powered by Intel Atom. He's teeny, the size of a large newborn baby: only 53cm in height, and weighs 4kg (Ok, about 21 inches and 9lbs). Nao can be customized with a wide range of accessories, and can be used for many different purposes. He can even dance flamenco. See the video after the break. Read The Full Story

Husqvarna launches robotic lawn mower dubbed Automower 305

, Feb 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Husqvarna has been around for a long time and way back in the day the company made some dirt bikes. Today it is more known for lawn and garden items like lawnmowers. The latest offering from Husqvarna is a sweet robotic lawnmower for the person with a smaller yard called the Automower 305. Read The Full Story

NEC PaPeRo robot coaxes out the elderly, researchers discover

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

We may have a soft spot for NEC's PaPeRo robot because of his endearingly huge eyes and squat little body, but the Japanese company's latest research suggests that the companion 'bot does in fact have a tangible impact on elderly people it accompanies. NEC ran a month-long trial in late 2010, pairing up the autonomous PaPeRo with elderly testers, and found that when the robot fed them with up to date activity information, local events and news, over 80-percent reported more life satisfaction, and 25-percent actually began doing more activities outside of the home. Read The Full Story

Android phone of the future?

, Jan 26th 2011 Discuss [1]

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Japan's Osaka University never fails to fascinate us with his amazingly life-like robotic creations. However, his latest creation, the Telenoid R1 is very different. Designed as a way of remote communication, the Telenoid R1 aims to make you feel as though the other person on the line is right there with you. What better way to stay connected? Read The Full Story

FujiSoft PALRO robot learns English [Video]

, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

FujiSoft's PALRO just keeps getting better, with the original educational robot getting an object-recognition upgrade late last year, and now learning English. Seemingly suggesting a launch outside of the current Japan-only market, the Atom-based 'bot can now maintain a conversation with English users. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Kinect robot control hack gives you an aerobics buddy [Video]

, Jan 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

With all the Kinect hacks we're seeing, it probably doesn't matter whether gamers are leaving their motion-control sensors to gather dust or otherwise; there are enough DIY-addicts buying it to make the peripheral a success. Latest is Asura's V-Sido remote app for the G-Robots GR-001 'bot, which can follow your movements for some aerobics-style mimicry. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

iRobot unveils new compact floor washing robot and more

, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

I have a lot of tile floors in my house and kids with lots of friends that traipse through all the time. That means keeping the floors clean is nearly impossible and I loathe any sort of cleaning that doesn't involve a car. Robots are really cool and if you combine a robot with cleaning my floors I am interested for sure. iRobot has a new addition to its home robot line for cleaning that claims to be the world's most compact floor washing robot. Read The Full Story

Cellbots Android app wants to be your robot’s brain [Video]

, Dec 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

We first wrote about the Cellbots project back in March, when Android tinkerers were first looking at the potential to use a Googlephone as the brain for simple Arduino-based robots. Now that project has spawned a full - and comprehensive - Android app, allowing you to use your handset as a remote control for a robot (with various platforms supported), as a brain directly mounted on the robot itself, or even pairing two handsets to delivery both roles. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Willow Garage Announces Expansion of PR2 Robot Community

, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

With all of the ridiculously advanced robots out there, it probably won't be the PR2 robots that start, or finish the war between man and machines. Their duties, which border on the strictly mundane, include that of folding laundry. But that doesn't mean even the smallest robots out there shouldn't have plenty of people making them do those mundane things in the best possible way. Willow Garage has announced that the community focused on these small robots has expanded, and now includes 16 leading research laboratories around the world. Read The Full Story

DARwIn-OP open-source DIY robot gets premature reveal

, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [1]

A new version of the NSF-sponsored DARwIn-OP open-source robot has been spotted, the latest handiwork from Virginia Tech in collaboration with Purdue University, University of Pennsylvania, and Robotis Co. The images were discovered in among the DARwIn-OP support site photos by the RoboSavvy forum, though right now it's unclear exactly what changes have been made. Read The Full Story

Android LEGO MINDroid app: make your phone a robot remote

, Oct 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

LEGO has released an official app for Android smartphones that allows users to remotely control their Mindstorm NXT robots by moving the handset.  LEGO MINDroid is a free download for Android 2.1 phones or above, and creates a Bluetooth link between the handset and the NXT controller block. Read The Full Story

ChumbyBot bipedal robot: when widgets take over the world [Video]

, Oct 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Chumby was made for hacking, and so we probably shouldn't be too surprised to see one sprout legs and start its gradual path to world domination.  Eric Gregori of EMG Robotics has developed a bipedal walking ChumbyBot by pairing the touchscreen Chumby One with a Freescale MMA7455l controller board. That board is soon going to be commercially launched as part of the Tower Robot/Sensor board from EMG, working with the company's RobotSee and Robot Vision Toolkit to make for easy vision-based navigation and control.  It's also apparently easy to code for, using the same sort of language as BASIC. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story
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