Archive for July, 2007
Next up in our feline robot collection is the Hello Kitty robot. This robot will be released on November 1 to commemorate her 30th birthday. You can interact with this cute robot in three scenarios: 1. As a friend, 2. As a family member or 3. Guessing game mode. This friendly [...]
Researchers at Philips in the Netherlands have developed a new robotic research program dubbed iCat. Why they want to use a cat to study facial expressions is beyond me. This platform has 13 servos that control the facial expressions. The iCat can seem sad, happy surprised and angry among other expressions. [...]
The i-LIMB has helped many people, including veteran Juan Arredondo, who lost his arm in Iraq. This amazing device allows him and others to do thinks most people take for granted like picking up luggage or driving a car. Juan’s son says he is ” half robot, half man”.
The device is created by Touch Bionics [...]
Tomy has announced release dates for it’s i-Sobot robot. The robot will be released in Japan and the United States in October and early 2008 in Europe. The 6.5 inch tall robot has 17 servos and a gyroscope. It responds to 10 voice commands and comes with over 200 pre-programmed actions [...]
First we had the most talked about piece of technology in recent years, the Jesus phone. Now we have Jesus robots or more accurately, robots that walk on water.
Carnegie Mellon University has based their robot called STRIDE on an insect called a water strider. This small robot weighs only a few grams [...]




