• MyRobots.com Launches It’s Robot App Store

    Updated: 2012-01-31 17:58:43
    At the time of this post, the MyRobots.com App Store has been live for just over 12 hours and is the first robot-specific App Store to list applications which are ready to buy! The first available applications are intended for use with the iRobot Roomba Vacuums, one of the most widely used robots in the [...]

  • Robots Podcast: Advances in Bipedal Locomotion

    Updated: 2012-01-27 20:31:56
    : All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Robots Podcast : Advances in Bipedal Locomotion Posted 27 Jan 2012 at 20:31 UTC by IKE_RobotsPodcast In the new episode of Robots Podcast we talk to  Subramanian Ramamoorthy  from the University of Edinburgh about the recent progress in walking robotics . We then speak with Felipe Brandão Cavalcanti an Electrical Engineering student working on bipedal walking at the LARA lab at the University of Brasilia with  Professor Geovany Borges Ramamoorthy tells us about the recent advances in humanoid bipedal walking illustrated by  Petman  and the latest version of  Asimo In particular , we look at the history of the field with work from  Mark Raibert   Russ Tedrake  and Daniel

  • "My robot is better than your robot."

    Updated: 2012-01-23 15:33:55
    Inspriational video from iamFIRST.com.(Via Nikolaus Correll)

  • Kids Get It, Robots Will Be Integral Parts of Their Lives

    Updated: 2012-01-19 21:39:14
    A recent study by Latitude shows that children from around the world see robots as a natural companion that able to help them learn and play. We encourage you to read the full report. The study also shows that the inherent “nerdiness” of a robot is cool and that children blur the differences between humans and machines and [...]

  • Random Robot Roundup

    Updated: 2012-01-19 19:41:04
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Random Robot Roundup Posted 19 Jan 2012 at 19:41 UTC by steve Shermine of Universal Robots a Danish company , writes to tell us about a light-weight robot arm and matching touch-screen controller they've just completed . We also got word of a new robotics and AI blog called NooTriX check it out . For our LEGO fans , Simon tells us about WorldBricks a website where you can download LEGO instructions and catalogs dating back to the 1950s . Guy Cefalu sent a link to the Element microcontroller for NET developers . No specs on memory or CPU type yet but looks like a PIC . bonus points to the first reader who posts instructions for using an open source compiler like SDCC with this one The

  • XYBOT video, by GeekBeat.tv

    Updated: 2012-01-16 16:46:22
    It appears Justin Bieber got around at CES. So did the GeekBeat.tv crew, including to the XYBOTYX booth, where they recorded the XYBOT rolling around on a wooden platform.

  • Justin Bieber is Actually a Robot

    Updated: 2012-01-11 19:38:17
    Well, that was a lie intended to catch your attention. At least as far as we can tell, Justin Bieber is not a robot, but don’t go away yet – we do have some news regarding the Canadian pop star and robots. Justin Bieber will be presenting robots form TOSY Robotics, a Vietnamese robotics company [...]

  • Catching up with Robots at CES

    Updated: 2012-01-11 18:09:33
    The video above shows iRobot's Ava telepresence platform paying a visit to the crew of The Verge, in their trailer at CES. Other exhibitors of interest include Parrot, showing their AR.Drone 2.0, and Sphero, with their iPhone-controlled ball. More to come.

  • Geek Media at CES 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-10 17:22:08
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Geek Media at CES 2012 Posted 10 Jan 2012 at 17:22 UTC by John_RobotsPodcast The video above is an informal always with Cali Lewis very upbeat interview with Gary Shapiro , CEO of the CEA , sponsors of CES . Besides Cali and crew The Verge and Engadget are also prowling the floor at CES 2012 and IEEE Spectrum is also covering the event All four sometimes talk about robots , and we know there are robots there so we're hoping for decent coverage , the best of which we'll be passing . along Robot of the Day Octobot Built by Walt Weaver Recent blogs 9 Jan 2012 The Swirling Brain Master 9 Jan 2012 steve Master 4 Jan 2012 evilrobots Observer 31 Dec 2011 AI4U Observer 31 Dec 2011 Flanneltron

  • A Guide to Navigating Credit Card Processing for Internet Toy Merchants—and Collectors

    Updated: 2012-01-09 18:15:15
    Credit card processing companies are a great asset for toy merchants and other collectors for successful transactions. Many online internet credit card processing companies will help merchants with setting up ecommerce websites. The wisest first step is to research the available options for your business or purchases. There are many different types of credit card [...]

  • Robots at CES 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-09 17:49:48
    Robots figure more prominently at this year's CES than ever before. Among the many presenters are Modular Robotics, whose Cubelets are shown above, and XYBOTYX, developers of the XYBOT, a small two-wheeled balancing device that turns an iPhone into a telepresence robot.

  • Taking a lesson from lizards

    Updated: 2012-01-06 16:39:21
    This video shows observations of a lizard jumping, followed by application of the techniques for use of a tail for stabilization to robots. (Via Automaton)

  • Random Robot Roundup

    Updated: 2012-01-05 00:36:13
    All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Random Robot Roundup Posted 5 Jan 2012 at 00:36 UTC by steve The mailbox has been filling up with interesting stories lately , like a pair of conflicting papers from the Current Directions in Psychological Science journal . One claims that Darwin was wrong to suggest that facial expressions have innate connections to particular emotions , while the other supports the idea that facial expressions evolved to communicate emotional states , playing a crucial role in survival . There's also new evidence that chimps have a theory of mind which has implications for the development of language . If all this talk of mind and emotion is too boring , Hank Pellissier over at IEET , wrote a piece

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