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SparkFun Redbot

John Payne 09 Aug 2013

http://youtu.be/AGVsV4abajo The ready-made platform (kit) options just keep getting better. Here SparkFun shows off its new Redbot kit, which includes everything you need to put together a basic mo...

2 cute robots: one funded by Japan’s Space Agency the other by Kickstarter

Frank Tobe 30 Jun 2013

Japan’s cute talking robot will take off August 4th for the Space Station. Kirobo, a 13” 2# mini-humanoid robot remembers faces, can move its head and arms, and is expected to help keep company an...

iRobot stock jumps 15% on Q1 earnings and 2013 projections

Frank Tobe 24 Apr 2013

iRobot’s stock (ISRG:NASDAQ) jumped 15% today on yesterday’s earnings report which exceeded analysts’ expectations for both the quarterly earnings and the annual projections....

Romo on the move

Frank Tobe 16 Mar 2013

Romotiv, the maker of the Romo robot, is moving from Las Vegas to San Francisco. CEO Rinaudo wrote the reason behind the move, which will take place over the next three months, was the company’s des...

2013 robotic gimmicks, gadgets and toys

Frank Tobe 26 Feb 2013

Toys often precede more serious inventions. So, putting judgement aside, and withholding laughs and other "tells", here are some new robotic toys and gadgets hitting the market this year....

Management shakeup at Adept Technology

Frank Tobe 25 Feb 2013

... Rob Cain replaces John Dulchinos as CEO of Adept Technology. Cain has worked with Adept for the past few months as an advisor and representative of Hale Capital Partners and crafted a restructurin...

Augmented realty interface for telepresence robots

Wolfgang Heller 22 Feb 2013

Telepresence robots are remote controlled cameras on wheels that are connected via Wi-Fi to a user's computer, mobile phone or tablet. The user can communicate via a "human-scale" robot with other peo...

Quadrocopter Drones from China

Wolfgang Heller 22 Jan 2013

The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world´s first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R/C model t...

Robotic kit for kids

Wolfgang Heller 04 Jan 2013

The Hummingbird robotics kit is a spin-off product of Carnegie Mellon's CREATE lab. Hummingbird is designed to enable engineering and robotics activities for ages 10 and up that involve the making of ...

Lots of robots at CES, January 10-13 in Las Vegas

Frank Tobe 20 Dec 2012

Many new vendors selling robotic consumer products at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 10-13....

The new Honda ASIMO

Ioannis K. Erripis 20 Nov 2011

The most famous humanoid robot, Honda’s ASIMO has a new version. A few days ago Honda presented a more advanced model and performed a small display of its new capabilities. Meanwhile the robotics se...