By Carlos Asmat & filed under Telepresence.
Bossa Nova Robotics, the manufacturer of countless robotic toys, has unveiled their newest robot at the 2012 RoboBusiness Summit in Pittsburgh. The new “mObi” is certainly not part of Bossa Nova’s toy robot lineup, and is the first commercial ballbot intended to be used as a personal robot, a telepresence platform, a guide or more. Its main distinguishing feature is that it […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Telepresence.
Back in May, Softbank purchased more than 80% of Aldebaran Robotics for $100 million. Then, Aldebaran purchased Karotz, the company which previously purchased Violet, creators of the Nabaztag. Now, Aldebaran has purchased Gostai, creator of the Jazz telepresence robot. “The association of our expertise in robotics with Gostai skills specialized in the field of applied […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Cloud Robotics, Medical, Telepresence.
iRobot already has robots for the home, the military and even for undersea exploration. In 2009, iRobot launched “iRobot Healthcare”, but until now we have not heard much from that division. Now, with the release of RP-VITA (based on iRobot’s AVA platform), iRobot is making its way into hospitals and once again, potentially saving many […]
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 Humanoids, Telepresence.
Geminoid F, Geminoid HI-1, and Geminoid DK met their original humans, an anonymous young lady, Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University, and Prof. Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University, in Denmark. This is the first (and probably the last) time that the Geminoid robotic family meet together with their human counterparts. As shown in the video below, […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under RobotShop, Telepresence.
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 […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Domestic, Telepresence.
iRobot unveiled AVA, their technology demonstrator, at CES 2011. AVA, which stands for “Avatar”, is an autonomous robot equipped with Primesense cameras (similar to the Kinect), laser range-finders, sonars, and even the old-fashioned bumpers. Although the computational-heavy sensor data processing and navigation is done internally by AVA’s on-board computer, the high-level control is left to whatever device is connected to its head. In the […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Industry, Schools & Curriculum, Telepresence.
South Korea is testing English teaching Robots in their elementary school classrooms. EngKey, a 1 meter tall autonomous robot that can be used by foreign English teachers to teleport into the Korean classrooms, is being used in 21 Korean elementary schools at the moment. The 29 deployed robots follow a rigid script for now but are expected to […]
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