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The robot below is made by Roger Seeberger, Switzerland. He is looking for partners to improve his robot prototype.  Below you can find his robot’s specs and other information. Thanks Roger… Robot Name:   SB-01 Category: HUMANOID, Prototype Branding-Robot Made By: Seeberger Robotics & Design Country: Switzerland Date of manufacture or date of introduction:  April, 8th 2011 Description: Wifi Robot, animated, interactive, 125 cm, 7,5 kg (with Akkus), […] Read More

LEGO® MINDSTORMS® is one of the most widely used robot kits around. It is especially helpful for students to get familiar with technology and engineering. It is possible to make quite complex robots with lego mindstorms, although at first glance it might seem more like a toy kit. There are touch, ultrasonic, voice and visual sensors and also an accelerometer included.     Read More

The MiniOmni is a robotic platform design for the education from high school to university, it can also be used for a research purpose, it can be a good basis in some robotic projects. The particularity of this robot is to have three omnidirectional wheels which make it having a very special kinematic (it can rotate on itself, rotate around an object by describing a […] Read More

According to sources, the movie will not be a remake but a prequel or a sequel. The 1982 movie is among the classics of science fiction. It looks like we have another 1-2 years before it hits the screens. Whether Harrison For will be in the movie is not clear yet. Read original story here. Read More

Here is a pool playing robot that uses an overhead camera and humanoid arms. It calculates the possible moves by weighing them according to its difficulty. The robot can make successful hits as much as five times in a row, which is difficult even for a good player.      Read More

Here is a life size android robot “Robot Betty9” by robot enthusiast Thomas Messerschmidt. Below is the information he provided to us: ROBOT NAME: Robot Betty9 CATEGORY: Entertainment/ Singer / A.I. APPROACH AND OVERALL DESIGN: Robot Betty9 is an expensive life-size android/ humanoid type of robot. She is an entertainment robot with A.I. and voice I/O. She has “sung” at various venues in Southern California. Her singing […] Read More

A three legged walking robot that was made in Cornell University walked for 30 hours and 49 minutes non-stop, without any human intervention or recharging, for a total of 40.5 msnbc.com reported. The robot called Ranger, also held the previous record, which it covered 14.3 miles in July 2010. Next to ranger, the second place on this category belongs to the famous bigdog robot of Boston Dynamics with 12.8 miles […] Read More

As the hobbyists might recall, the production of the robot dinasour, Pleo, had stopped last year. Now, after Innvo Labs took over the technology of the robot, the toy is back in production. The new version has a longer battery life, improved skin sensor system and also a new smell sensor system. The robot is already on sale in Hong Kong and it will be […] Read More

One of the most popular humanoid robot kits, bioloid, announced that the premium kit will be available for sale soon. The robot has excellent humanoid walking ability and transparent skin for customization. In addition to many upgrades, robotis definetely upgraded the appearance too. The bioloid kit, by Robotis, is also able to make robots other than Humanoids. For more details please visit here. Read More

The new robot called Mint Robot #3, Music Tank, is a robotic music player that can follow you around or be remote controlled. The robot detects the objects in its front by ultrasonic sensors and can distinguish humans with its thermal sensors. With the endless track system like those used in war tanks, the robot can overcome most of the obstacles if they can not […] Read More