Thomas Barse and Dino Ushida recently formed the Xodiac Design Project to develop, promote, and actively market some amazingly cute robotic characters that we believe will turn out to be extremely popular. Ushida and Barse make a unique combination. Ushida had a very successful career in marketing as a key...KQED in San Francisco put together an excellent 5 minute mini-documentary on the hackerspace movement featuring Mitch Altman, one of the founders of the Noisebridge hackerspace: Search out a hackerspace in your community. They are popping up all over the world. Over here, Tokyo Hackerspace is well over a year...
In the early ROBO-ONE competitions the first day was entirely devoted to 2 minute autonomous demonstrations where each builder's robot had to perform, and be scored by a panel of expert judges. The competition was intense and the pressure extreme. There could easily be as many as 100 humanoid robots...
RobotShop is putting together a series of video tutorials in order to get you up and running with electronic and robotics projects. The first such project is an Arduino-compatible RGB LED Mood Cube. This is basically the high-tech geeky version of a mood light. The video below illustrates how the cube is made and what components are [...]We've been following Taylor Veltrop's work integrating the Kinect with humanoid robots utilizing the Willow Garage ROS system closely, and we weren't surprised when he mentioned last night that he had just finished a new “killer video.” You may be aware that Taylor was one of the lucky, and extremely...101223 Kondo Land Robot Contest 262 Originally uploaded by Robots-Dreams. The 2nd Kondo Land robot steeplechase event kicks off this Sunday (January 23, 2011) at RoboSpot. The competition features multi-legged robots trying to navigate a challenging, almost impossible, obstacle course and having a heck of a lot of fun and...When we think about humanoid robots evolving to the point that they can be useful and practical assistants in the home, clinic, or senior center, large, usually heavily funded robots developed by major institutions immediately come to mind. At the same time a lot of useful work to advance the...Some analysts are expecting strong benefits for Japanese robot makers triggered by the current economic situation, especially inflation in Asian economies. "Japanese robot and machinery makers could be winners this year as Asian manufacturers, faced with rising wage costs and surging prices for energy and other commodities, seek to boost...
The 10th annual CRC Robotics challenge “Mill-bornes” 2011 will take place on February 10 to 12 at Lester B.Pearson High School. RobotShop has been a long-term partner and supporter of the CRC and once again this year we will be present at the competition covering the event. We expect you will be coming to see us at [...]
Robots specialized in agriculture have been developed by engineers at the University of Illinois in order to automate the heavy labor of farmers. These robots can detect diseased plants, alert other robots of the existence of a pest and get everyone together to fight as a team with the help of satellites. New generations of [...]
The agricultural sector has developed into a highly technical area of global significance for food, energy and landscape management. Connect the demand for new ideas for technical solutions to the economic benefits with social and environmental impact is great.
A major platform for the development of autonomous robots is the field from the University of Wakening, [...]