All the stories tagged with robot
Firefighting robot team unveiled
07/28/2009, An entire team of fire-fighting robots was recently unveiled by defense contractor QinetiQ at a demonstration in London, where a quartet of robots were more than battle-ready to tackle the particular risk of fires involving cylinders of the industrial gas [...]
iPhone 3G S is now a face of a robot
07/28/2009, Hmm, guess the world hasn’t run out of ways to make full use of the recently released iPhone 3G S just yet. In fact, an enthusiastic robot hobbyist managed to come up with an application that enables the iPhone 3G [...]
Safe Cracker Looks Mischevious
07/24/2009, Forget about going to the school of hard knocks to learn how to crack safes – Carlos discovered a way by creating his very of robot known as the Safe Cracker (how obvious), using parts from a Pololu Micro Serial [...]
HRP-4C Robot In Wedding Gown
07/22/2009, Is humanity going to go extinct due to their own devices? The answer might very well be in the affirmative, as the HRP-4C female humanoid robot developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has finally [...]
RHEX Hexapod Robot
07/22/2009, Another day, another robot is introduced to the world. The RHEX is a hexapod robot, and does not have any specific function of seek-and-destroy, although who knows what its demure personality will turn into once it enters military service. This [...]
Flossie Motorcycle Robot
07/20/2009, Were you impressed by the Moto-Terminator in the most recent Terminator Salvation outing? Well, Flossie could very well the the grand-daddy of them all, as this robot was specially built to ride motorcycles. Thankfully for humanity, Flossie is not able [...]
Bandai My Doraemon Robot
07/20/2009, Most peope we know love the earless robotic cat known as Doraemon, and Bandai is quick to realize that fact – hence the release of the My Doraemon robot come this September 3rd. This new toy will feature motion, light, [...]
This snake robot can go everywhere
07/16/2009, Built by the Carnegie Mellon University, This snake robot has interesting all-terrain capabilities. It can swim, go through mud, climb poles or go past fences. If developed into a product, it could be great to help rescue people trapped in [...]
DustCart Robot Trash Collector
07/09/2009, Who could forget about the super cute robot known as Wall-E? Well, this DustCart robot trash collector is part of the DustBot project, a $3.9 million research program which begun in 2006 that helps to implement robotics in society in [...]
Sega Toys Dream Cat Venus
07/06/2009, Sega Toys has unveiled an updated version of their electronic cat, the Yume Neko “Dream Cat” Venus that offers a whole lot more possible movement compared to its predecessor. Available as a life-sized Norwegian Forest Cat, it is able to [...]
Bandai Doraemon My Communication Robot
06/26/2009, Bandai has come up with a brand new My Communication Robot that is in the form of Doraemon. This 16.5cm tall robot boasts 11 features that makes it more intelligent than just a dumb toy, where there are temperature sensors [...]
Book-reading Robot
06/14/2009, Great, it seems that us humans are getting lazier and lazier by the moment – that the Ninomiya-kun robot for instance. This 1-meter-tall, 25-kilogram aluminum-framed robot was developed at Waseda University’s Information, Production and Systems Research Center (IPSRC), and is [...]
Aero-Blue Robot Feeds You
06/10/2009, So we’ve already taken a look at a robot that is able to transfer sushi from one plate to another, why not mix that with the Aero-Blue robot that is able to feed you as well? This robot is smart [...]
