Honda has invented robot legs.  As you can see, this assistive device is designed to help handicapped, elderly or people who stand for a long time, such as factory workers.
The device is designed to reduce stress and make you feel less tired.
Engineer Jun Ashihara said,
This should be as easy to use as a bicycle.
It is [...]

Folks at Carnegie Mellon have teamed up with Caterpillar to create the world’s largest robotic truck.
You may recall Carnegie Mellon won the DARPA Urban challenge with a vehicle named BOSS.  They will use some of this software and other technology such as laser range finders, GPS and video cameras in the new trucks.
The truck will [...]

At Georgia Tech, assistant professor Charlie Kemp has been developing a robotic dog of sorts.
This robot named El-E (pronounced “Ellie”), is designed to do everything a service dog would do like open doors, open cabinets and fetch objects.
It takes over two years and $17,000 to properly train a service dog.  The waiting list for these [...]

Some creative soul has jailbroken an iPhone , combined it with an Arduino and made it into a robot.
The user is able to control the robot via WiFi from a computer and the robot is powered with 4 AA batteries.
Video after the break.
Link via (Engadget)

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We wrote about the store Robot Galaxy opening last year.  See our previous post here.
Robot Galaxy has just opened a third 600 square foot store inside the Times Square Toys “R” Us.
The basic premise is you select different parts to build your custom robot.  Then you go to a workstation and put together your robot.  [...]