By William Cox & filed under Domestic, Industry.
The iPhone controlled flying robot, AR-Drone, which was debuted at CES this year, now has a price tag. Parrot has announced that the autonomous quadracopter will retail for $300 USD and be available in September. While Gizmodo says, “ouch!”, we say “wow!” because I was fully expecting a >$500 price tag, considering that the vehicle […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
Dan Kara, president of Robotics Trends, just emailed me to let me and you readers know that there’s a free Robotics Virtual Summit going on tomorrow, June 16th, 2010 from 9AM – 6PM EST. It will feature presentations from MobileRobots, Inc., Â NASA Ames Research Center, 5D Robotics, Inc., National Instruments and others. Here’s a list […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
Ok folks, I know it’s taken a while, but the results are finally in and we now have winners for the GoRobotics 10th anniversary giveaway! I’m super excited about this and very grateful to our prizes sponsors: Pololu Solarbotics , Vex Robotics, Apress, and No Starch Press. Before listing the winners let me say a few words […]
By William Cox & filed under Uncategorized.
[via Facebook] Jason Lentz has an amazing cardboard robot costume, and frequents events like Burning man and the recent Maker Fair in SF. He has quite a collection of robot suit iterations in his Flickr page, and if you’re feeling envious, you can buy one of his robot arms on Etsy for a mere $85 […]
By William Cox & filed under Electronics.
While doing my morning reading, I came across this gem of a device. It’s a DB9 pin-compatible USB port. That means for every board you have that originally took a DB9-style serial port, you can now drop in this device and have USB access instead. Inside the connector is FTDI’s ubiquitous USB-to-serial converter chip. Too […]
By William Cox & filed under Robotics Projects & Kits.
Check out some of the new robots added to RobotBox. For those that don’t know, RobotBox is a new community website for robot builders to show off their projects and inspire other builders. You can add your robot here. AIMEC:3 robot My First Robot Peanut Tin of Terror Walkin’ Sticks HaloBOT MiniEric
By William Cox & filed under Industry, Uncategorized.
From the same folks that brought us the Wild World of Robots, comes the Cyborgs On The Screen infographic. Full graphic after the jump.
By William Cox & filed under Domestic, Medical.
Mass High Tech has posted an interview with iRobot’s CEO, Colin Angle, on their plans for the future. Angle discusses their plans to combat the “demographic shift” of a 4:1 caregiver to care-needer ratio to a 1:1 ratio in the next 20 years. In other words, in the next 20 years, there will be a […]
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