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In University of Reading of England, a free, 4-week online robotics course is offered for beginners to robotics. Begin Robotics is targeted, primarily, at 14 – 18 year olds who are interested in robots and/or the possibility of studying robotics at University. It doesn’t assume any prior knowledge and is open to anyone, around the world however, so will no doubt attract a much broader […] Read More

EZ-Robot was founded in 2011 by Roboticist DJ Sures, which was created for users of all skill levels. Its goal is to unite advanced robotic features with easy graphical design interface, video tutorials, reliable robot controller hardware and an easy to use modular platform. This way, users of all levels can visit a single location for their Robot needs and start enjoying robotics right away. […] Read More

Lego and Autodesk recently announced that they will collaborate for an improved set of robot building instructions, which will support the new Lego Mindstorms model expected to hit store shelves this fall. Autodesk will provide interactive 3D robot building instructions for existing models, which will also be available as Android and IOS applications. See video below, to view how it works: Video Credit: http://www.autodesk.com   Read More

3D printing becomes popular in everything from bio-printing to architectural structures, and so does in robotics. With 3D printed parts InMoov is a humanoid robot designed and built by Gael Langevin of Factices Ateliers in France. InMoov which was designed with Blender is running on MyRobotLab and Arduino and it runs on batteries. It is a do-it-yourself printable robot with an open source. Gradually the parts of InMoov […] Read More

Lego Mindstorms was known as the first of the smart toys when it was unleashed in 1998. Lego releases the new generation of MindStorms in order to make younger generations acquainted with building robots and programming applications. The new Mindstorms EV3 is developed in three years by an international team consisting of designers from Europe and the US and Mindstorms enthusiasts from Greece to Canada. […] Read More

Fischertechnik Robo TX (TM) is designed for building eleven different types of robots, including soccer robot, elevator, lawn mover, hand dryer, driverless transportation system and more. The kit also includes two encoder motors which allow accurate positioning. The kit comes with Bluetooh radio interface, 8 universal inputs, 8 mb ram, 32 bit processor. Visit the official website here. Price: $500 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

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

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