By RB1 & filed under Lynxmotion, RobotShop.
The long-awaited Lynxmotion Servo Erector Set V1.1 is now available for immediate purchase! SES stands for “Servo Erector Set”, a versatile set of servo brackets and mechanical parts used as modular building blocks for hobby servo motors. The Servo Erector Set mechanics are made up of durable black aluminum brackets and sturdy black Lexan. You […]
By RB1 & filed under Entertainment.
F.A.T. played a practical joke on Manhattan residents recently by creating a fake Google driverless / autonomous car and “autonomously” roaming the streets. They displayed terrible driving skills (even staged some accidents), and acted as offensively as they could. See the very funny resulting video below. If you want to make your own, they even shared the […]
By RB1 & filed under Domestic, RobotShop, Vacuum.
We are happy to announce the availability of the Ecovacs product line at RobotShop. This innovative manufacturer currently produces three different robots: the Atmobot, the Deebot and the WinBot. Atmobot is an air-purifying robot that roams the house seeking pollutants in the air and eliminating them. This is a very unique robot and the only one of […]
By RB1 & filed under Exoskeleton, Medical.
Richard Van As, a master carpenter from Johannesburg, South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers. He’d lost four of the fingers on his right hand in an unfortunate work accident. As a tradesman, having a disabled hand is a big professional detriment, so he decided that he would use the tools available […]
By RB1 & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The Wyss Institute at Harvard just unveiled the smallest robot capable of flight. The “RoboBee” weighs less than a gram and can steer, hover and take off by flapping its wings more than 120 time per second. As shown in the video below, it’s quite stable and maneuvers well using its electric muscles to flap its wings. […]
By RB1 & filed under RobotShop.
Dongbu Robotics released the Hovis Genie, a new humanoid robot. This platform is built on the Hovis Eco biped platform but the legs have been replaced by a holonomic omniwheel drive system and an additional smart device holder in the chest. The resulting robot is very stable, versatile and has lots of possibilities for interactivity and advanced development. See the […]
By RB1 & filed under Entertainment, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Nothing says “I love you” better than a robot, right? That’s exactly what Jason thought when he proposed to his girlfriend Christina. Did she say “Yes!”?. Watch the video below to find out. We believe there are many cheesy ways of proposing but we are particularly fond of the ones which use robots. Have you ever used robots to […]
By RB1 & filed under Humanoids, Military.
PETMAN, the biped humanoid from Boston Dynamics, recently got to do its job: to test military clothing and equipment. As seen in the video below, the robot was given some clothes and equipment to test… and it did just that. It is very interesting to see the robot walk and move effortlessly. What do you think of this kind of […]
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