: All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Robots Podcast 72 : Telepresence Robots Posted 25 Feb 2011 at 17:50 UTC by John_RobotsPodcast The February 25th episode of Robots Podcast features interviews with Jean-Christophe Baillie founder and CEO of Gostai previously known for their Urbi robotic platform now open source and makers of the recently introduced Jazz telepresence robot and with Trevor Blackwell of Anybots , . Inc makers of the two-wheeled , balancing telepresence robot recently featured in a popular YouTube video in which the robot rolls up to the counter of a coffee shop , where it represented its remote operator for a pastry purchase . Read , on or Tune in Robot of the Day Ester Built by Sirael Team Recent blogs 25
Usually in a race powered vehicles are penalized with a delayed starting time allowing the humans to get far enough down the course to make the competition somewhat equal. But VStone's robots are somewhat diminutive both in stature and endurance. They'll need their batteries swapped and perhaps their servos repaired...
It is not very often that we get to showcase (non robotic) Hollywood celebrity pictures. Today we are lucky, a contest from Worth100.com resulted in transforming many famous actors and singers into cyborgs. See the pictures below for some Photoshop pleasure. Via Vincentabry.com Related Posts:Cyborgs – Info graphicCyborgs to Colonize SpaceRobotShop Poll on CyborgsNeato XV-11 Disassembly, See the Guts [...]RoboGames 2011 kicks off on Friday, April 15th in San Mateo, California. Yikes! That's only about 6-7 weeks away! Time to get your robots ready, and to register online! Head on over to the RoboGames website now!Manchester Airport has installed virtual assistants that some passengers, and the public, are mistaking for holograms or even actual human staff. The technology is readily available rear projection images on a substrate in the shape of the actor, and has been actively promoted by companies like 3M. While the virtual...
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It's all about motivation, inspiration, and entertainment. Even when we have 'competitions' here the primary purpose isn't to see who is best at building competitive robots. It's about the experience, about engaging people and inspiring them to join in the fun, to show them how exciting building robots and competing...
As we announced previously, RobotShop was at the CRC Robotics Challenge this year. On this 10th anniversary of the competition we had lots of fun at our kiosk. This is an amazing competition for high-school and CEGEP students, allowing them to design and build their own robot in order to accomplish a meaningful task. The picture below shows all [...]
We are proud to announce that the very awesome Jazz telepresence robot by Gostai is available for sale at RobotShop. This robot can virtually teleport you to any place in the world and allows you to work remotely. As a result, you can save on business trips, boost productivity, quickly manage problems in multiple distant locations [...]
Honda was investigated in two-legged humanoid robots began in 1986. The first milestone was the development of prototype biped could walk in a static mode and rectum. It was from this early progress that could reach the next key stage of development, which was to develop a more stable and dynamic way. Added to this [...]
The use of robotics in medicine was initiated several years ago and the problem of security in an environment where man is very far. The complexity of such systems and the transfer of responsibility of the surgeon to drive the robot designers to incorporate into their studies of the safety requirements of operation, including one [...]
Medical robotics and robotic surgery appear to be the future of medical operations. Although the cost of a surgical robot is approximately $ 1.7 million, it is a very large extent. The medical world sees this technology as a remarkable and revolutionary step towards less invasive surgery. Through the use of robotics more complex operations [...]
The guys from California’s Willow Garage to have an interesting thing – they support a free robotehnicheskuyu Robot Operating System platform open source. As a final demonstration of ligament ROS and PR2 robot masters “taught” the last game of billiards. Just a week developers were able to achieve good results – the robot safely play [...]
Machines are becoming more human-like – in Japan, robots already were tested in the classroom. But this is only the beginning: scientists predict that people will in future not only have sex with androids, but that machine us no later than 2070 to trump intelligence. Last month the company announced Gecko system, that you had [...]