November 2010
Talay Robot Gives Your Tweets A Soundtrack
November 30, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Tweet a message @talayrobot and an ST Robotics arm comes to life inside Sony Music’s London HQ and starts transcribing your tweet onto a lit-up whiteboard. Plus the whole process gets filmed and the video is sent back to you within minutes, with a soundtrack from Sony’s Talay Riley.
Nao Developer Program Starts
November 30, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Aldebaran Robotics’ Nao humanoid robot is an awesome little bot.
Mega Hurtz Robot Has Gun, Will Travel
November 22, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Inspector Bots is offering its Mega Hurtz Tactical Robot to police and military organizations and the bot can lay down a world of hurtz alright, thanks to its turret-mounted 20RPS Modified Mil-Sim Paintball Gun / Assault Rifle, capable of firing off twenty non-lethal pepperball rounds per second. It has been called a “heavy duty 280 lb two-man-portable monster”
REEM-H2 Robot Looks Evil
November 22, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
The Reem-H2 comes from Spanish company PAL Robotics and is suited for ‘public environments’. Despite it’s evil looks, the robot is all about human relations.
Blinky Trailer
November 17, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen any footage of Ruairi Robinson’s murderous robot. Well, now we have the first teaser trailer
Pleo Gets Reborn As PLEO RB, Will Be Available This Month
November 17, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Pleo is back and the adorable dinosaur will officially go on sale again this month. The biggest change is Pleo’s name. Pleo is now called PLEO RB or PLEOrb depending on which pages you go on the site
President Obama Meets Japanese Robots
November 17, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
President Obama recently took some time to meet with a few of Japan’s finest robots. And he was brave, doing Americans proud and not letting them get under his skin
Pulito, The Lego Mindstorms Swiffer Bot
November 15, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Want to build your own Lego bot to swiffer your floor? That’s what PlastiBots did with the Pulito shown above, a Lego Mindstorms NXT sweeper equipped with a bunch of sensors to navigate around furniture and a Swiffer pad. The charging dock has an infrared beacon to guide the it home for a charge when needed.
Geminoid-F hits the stage for Japanese play
November 12, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Japan has several creepy and realistic robots, but only one is emotive enough to get her shot at stardom on stage. Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Geminoid-F has now made its debut in a Japanese play. She didn’t do it by herself though
Bacarobo ‘Stupid Robot’ Contest
November 10, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
We love our high-tech gadgets, but we also have a place in our hearts for the useless and the stupid. That’s what the annual Bacarobo (stupid robot) contest is all about. This year’s event was held in Budapest, Hungary, and if you attended you would have seen some of the stupidest robots ever
