The folks at iRobot make some pretty useful household robots. Most people are familiar with the iRobot Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners which wander around your home cleaning in a crazy pattern. Another iRobot device that you may not be familiar with is the Looj gutter cleaning robot. The Looj by…
In my never humble opinion, this is one of the coolest Halloween costumes evah – kid in a robotic Walker suit – the dad who made it for him RULES! That is all!
Get yourself a giant RC ant with a crystal scull as the remote? I can’t imagine this one being a great seller… I mean were there even giant ants in the last Indian Jones movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)? Either way this remote control gadget will set you back…
Nissans latest jump into the accident-avoidance world is the BR23C robotic car. The BR23C uses a laser range finder (LRF), which works like a bumble bee’s eye, to detect obstacles up to two meters away. Supposedly this system then allows the “car” to “instinctively” react to obstacles and avoid them. …
I own an iRobot Roomba… and love it. I am not sure it is really much of a time saver… as I am so amazed by the damn thing and tend to follow it around watching it do its job. I am not the smartest fellow. Either way I am…
From Japan, the country that brought you Hello Kitty and Life Like Extreme Sex Robots, comes the Seal Type Mental Commit Robot for Psychological Enrichment. No, that’s not from Borat. That would be the mental marketing giants from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology crushing it with…
Let me start off by saying that they are sold-out…huge bummer! The Asahi BeerBot is a tiny R2D2 looking robot that will refrigerate, store, open, and pour your beer for you. I am not sure of the price, or if more will be coming back into stock anytime soon… but…
Friend of mine send me this pic of some anal retentive British Defense Ministry chap playing with what looks like a hover-copter. Apparently having Mother England covered with static surveillance cameras is not enough – time to upgrade the toys. At first look, this reminds me of one of those…
First came the Boston Dynamics “Big Dog”, then came the hilarious “Big Dog Spoof”… now there is the Boston Dynamics “LittleDog”. The little dog is smaller (duh) and quieter than the original. These robots are starting to worry me a bit… all of those old “robots taking over the world”…
Although I was deeply disappointed at the absence of robot sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads, the 11th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition was still awesome. Robotic subs competed in a variety of tasks showing off their technological prowess. This year a team from the University of…