Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Thursday, January 24, 2008
Nevertheless, bunnie somehow managed to scrounge up enough hardware to hack together a Chumby-based, drivable RC car with the ability to beam back its surroundings so that it...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Hard to believe we're seeing yet another wearable robot suit emerge from Japan, eh? All sarcasm aside, there actually is a newcomer to the curiously growing market courtesy of...
We guess it was only matter a time until it happened. Still, we can't help but feel a bit sad and creeped-out at seeing Pleo splayed in a Santilli-esque display of sideshow curio....
Sunday, January 13, 2008 at Sunday, January 13, 2008
At first glance, it's hard to imagine changing anything about this bundle of cuteness, but for the loyal souls that waited through agonizing months of delays and kept the faith...
He's winking at us, he loves everyone, and he talks out of his crotch. Say hello to Sunny, NOAA's taxpayer-funded weather bot. Get a load of that Engadget r...
We already knew that a few new Spykee robots would be unleashed at CES, and what better way to check out said models than on video? Take a leap beyond the break to catch Mahalo...
Here you have it. iRobot's latest domestic robot, the Looj. Turn him loose in your gutters and you can remote control the little green varmint until the floods return. Click...
Click on through to hear how the iRobi could soon be guarding homes and beaming out vitals to physicians here in America -- if Yujin scores a US distributor, that is. Yujin's...
While browsing the monstrosity that is CES 2008, we happened upon a pair of i-SOBOTs attempting to utterly demolish each other. Was there really any other choice but to stop...
By 2010, the Korean Construction and Transportation Ministry hopes to have an almost completely automated construction process in place for high-rise projects that could cut...
This frisky 40-foot tall, fire-breathing bot answers to the name Robosaurus, and a traumatic youth spent crushing cars in front of thousands of rednecks means this guy needs...
The $99 wireless version of everyone's favorite mascot will alert you to nearly anything you want via an adorable combination of wing-flapping, dancing, spinning, and light-flashing,...
The only real problem with the i-Limb bionic arm isn't so much a problem in our books, as it is an advantage: it's stronger than your old-fashioned human arms. Is there an ethical...
The Lion should be shipping soon, but the entire Alive line will get bigger later this year with the addition of the Alive White Tiger Cub, the Alive Panda Cub, and the Alive...
Unlike that mini helicopter you likely unboxed during the holidays, the Bladestar is actually controllable and able to maintain proximity to its user instead of flying off props-first...
In any case, once the robot has solved the puzzle, it takes the remaining five seconds to spin the sides until all the colors are lined up, just so. Using sensors to identify...
What you may not have known, however, is that the company also has a division devoted to the design of government and industrial robots, such as the ominously named iRobot Warrior...
While no one's using amber-preserved dino DNA to recreate the bird and lizard ancestors, there will be lifelike animatronic dinosaurs created by the Tokyo-based Kokoro company....
The news is all over Engadget and the UK version of Gamespot [the image at left, meanwhile, came from an issue of Stuff Magazine]: A new Sony AIBO robotic dog called the AIBO...
The thing did manage to illicit some guilty chuckles, but after spending some time with the robotic dinosaur, I couldn't help but feel a bit squeamish at the site of the little...
The departure of these non-toxic flakes will leave the little robot with a somewhat weathered or "loved" appearance that may or may not please owners. Earlier this year, the...
He gives you fortunes, speaks the time, reacts to light and motion, winks and blinks, and plays music from your MP3 player and the AM/FM radio. So rise and shine, and get this...
If, however, you're ready to stop shopping for that Hyundai Elantra and want to automate (and lighten the mood in) your home, MobileRobots is accepting orders for holiday delivery...
That could be a bit of an exaggeration, since none of WowWee's robots (Robosapien, Roboraptor, Roboquad, Robopanda) do much more than react to stimuli and their environments....