By Carlos Asmat & filed under Entertainment, Humanoids, Research, Toys, Transport.
The Japanese did it again. This time they are fulfilling the dream of pretty much any robotic geek: to have your own functional giant Battle Mech that can be piloted by a grown adult and used to cruise through the city and defeat all your arch-enemies. Suidobashi heavy industry developed the Kuratas, the first giant […]
By RB1 & filed under Entertainment, RobotShop, Toys.
Sphero is an amazing robotic ball that can be controlled via a Smartphone using Bluetooth. There are various free apps designed specifically for this robot ball allowing it to be programmed to follow patterns, play games, scare your cat, and more. Most importantly, it is now available at RobotShop! Oh, and did we mention it is waterproof […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Cloud Robotics, Prototypes, Telepresence, Toys.
Oddwerx, produced by OLogic Inc is a very impressive and very capable smartphone robotic platform. The platform is compatible with all the major software development platforms including MyRobots.com, Android, IOS and ROS. This robot even won the California Cloud Robotics Hackathon by playing Tic-Tac-Toe with humans! If you want to see these robots produced, you can help OLogic fund […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under RobotShop, Toys.
The robopocalypse is near. Now you can get your very own Ride-in Dalek from Dr. Who at RobotShop and EXTERMINATE ALL HUMANS (read in Dalek voice). The 1.3m tall Ride-in Daleks are made by Kids@Play and can fit a small human of at most 30 kg. So if you are a grown-up Dr. Who fan […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Toys.
Everybody loves Keepon, the little yellow dancing robot. It was developed by Hideki Kozima at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Kyoto, Japan. Currently it is intended for research, especially in education with autistic children, and costs several thousand dollars. You can see the very cute robot with its camera eyes and microphone […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Toys.
At RobotShop, we have a weird tendency to disassemble our robots (especially lately). This time, we bring you the total dismantling of the cute and innocent Nabaztag. This little rabbit is a very interesting piece of equipment since it has a powerful ARM processor, RFID reader and WiFi capabilities among other things. See the video below in order to get […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Telepresence, Toys.
The new TRAKR from Wild Planet is a very interesting mobile spy toy on its own, but it also has lots of hacking potential. Wild Planet is even embracing this hacking movement by providing documentation about all the platform features. Soon enough, this toy will be converted in a very inexpensive programmable robotic platform for all roboticists to enjoy. The kind people at Hack a […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry, Toys.
This isn’t strictly robot related, but have you seen the South Leicester Aeronutz website? There’s some really amazing radio controlled creations on there. Most of the creations use very thin (2mm) foam walls and tiny pager-type motors to turn the prop. You can purchase super-small (under 1cm squre) radio receivers from Micro Flier Radio. For […]
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