Robotic Blogs

This is not directly robot related.I wanted to explain the association between Robot Gossip's online store, Roboteria, and the new video download service at Amazon.com.UnBox Videos are DVD quality videos that you download from Amazon.com to your PC. They have a fair selection so...

From online San Jose Mercury News:On a February weekend visit home from college in 2001, 18-year-old Patrick Hsu noticed an odd toy robot dog that had been mailed in a box weeks earlier. His father had opened the box, then set the contraption aside when he noticed it needed batteries...

Scraping high value minerals from the bottom of the sea is moving ahead with Neptune Minerals' (LSE:NPM)announcement that will be starting their next survey project off New Zealand.Neptune has contracted Geo Subsea based in Bergen, Norway for high resolution mapping and geoassay...

Factory robots have long been able to do the machine and assembly work. Now they can also do the inline part inspection.Just add an Orus3D SKEYE 3D scanning head to the arm of your favorite factory robot. The scanned image is sent to a vision controller and compared to inspection...

Echo robots are being developed to help sophisticated urbanites hook up. The small robots can wiggle and probably talk a little. They are small enough to carry around with you. At home you connect it to your pc and program your interest profile into it. Then you carry it around...

WowWee is at it again!Even after all the exciting new products announced at CES just weeks ago they still have more!WowWee is showing off their latest two new robots at the Toy Fair in London.HOMERSAPIEN and SPIDERSAPIEN. Where is the Incredible Hulk?Robosapien becomes Spidersapien...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are developing an interface between a human and an artificial limb."The nervous system will certainly rebel if you place hard or sharp electrodes into it to record signals. However, the nervous system can be tricked...

Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency, DSTA, has announced a competition to encourage scientists and engineers to design a robot for urban combat.The objective of the TechX Challenge is "to inspire and engage the wider community of engineers and technologists, challenging...

Maybe your robot vacuum is getting boring?You can give it a costume but it still just vacuums. Watching your robot vacuum run around the room is about as exciting as watching NASCAR all day.Hey! Wait a minute! That gives me an idea...What if someone made robot vacuum cleaners...

Robots are performing along with human dancers in a commissioned piece at Monclair State University in New Jersey.The robots are the creation of Japanese artist Kenjiro Okazaki and are known as DekNobo. The name is derived from the Japanese word dekunobo which means a "useless wooden...

And you thought that the new iPhone had alot of features. Wait until you see this baby!This 'Cellular Phone Robot' is designed to become your own personal ubiquitous companion. It does everything but wipe your floors.The CPR has wheels so that it can move. With RFID tags installed...

An experimental home robot developed at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)in Taiwan called 'NCTU Vision One' can identify people and interpret hand gestures.The robot is a product of the Computer Vision Research Center at the university.It is designed to recognize a particular person and follow them around in case they need help. After training...

The manufacturer of the DaVinci Surgical robots, Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), is being sued by California Institute of Technology for infringing on four patents.The suit was filed for Cal Tech by Wilson, Sheehy, Knowles, Robertson & Cornelius law firm of Tyler, Texas in the U.S....

It is a sign of the growing influence of robots that we are seeing all kinds of news and announcements about robots coming out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show."Of course," you say."So what?" you ask.It has only been a very few years that robots ever made it farther than...

One would think that the next step in home robot development would be to add more features to the vacuum cleaner. In a surprising turn, iRobot has chosen to remove capabilities from their machine. iRobot launched their latest home robot today aimed at schools and robot developers...

More news from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas...PC Magazine has a description of two new robots from WowWee:RoboPanda "Designed for children ages 4 and up, the 8-pound Robopanda will be covered with eight touch sensors and, using infrared and stereo sensors, should be...

The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robot competition kicked off the 2007 season by announcing the playing field challenge and parts kits for this year's contest.The high school teams are given six weeks to design and build their competition robots...

Not much information about this yet but it looks really fun.Meccano is introducing a remote controlled Erector Set robot kit that runs on treads. It has a webcam and can communicate over wifi.Meccano is introducing it at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.I am looking forward...

The Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and a consortium of tech companies have introduced their latest entry into the growing family of home robots. ROMI understands voice and wireless commands and can communicate back via voice or wireless.It has...

Technology Review asked members of their list of young innovators for 2006 to tell what they are hoping for in 2007.Researcher Paris Smaragdis, a researcher at Mitsubishi's MERL in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spoke up on behalf of machine listening research.He says that the quest for...

There have been some very significant advances in robot technology and applications this year. There is strong belief that we are witnessing the beginnings of what will become an intimate and essential part of our lives. (See Bill Gates' thoughts in Scientific American) The robot...