Robot Living

Running on six AA batteries & three AAA, the new Roboscooper from WowWee can clean up after your kids buy picking up small toys or objects and stowing them it it’s truck like bed.  It also comes with a wack mode, that just wacks objects out of it’s path.

From the WowWee website:

Meet Roboscooper™, your fun, friendly robotic buddy who loves to pick up, dump and recycle! Have him carry or scoop your favorite things around the house. In Autonomous mode he’ll grab things he sees or use the remote controller to make him pick up lightweight objects! After a long day working, Roboscooper loves to whack things with his arms. With lots of funny comments, modes and full driving control, Roboscooper is always ready to have fun!

Pre order yours now for $70 from Hammacher Schlemmer with expected shipping a the end of the month.

Link via (Gizmodo)

Tags: wowwee

This week at the Fujitsu Forum event in Tokyo, Fujitsu unveiled a robotic teddy bear.

The bear has over 300 different reactions like giggling when it’s stomach is rubbed. Inside the bear’s nose is a camera that helps it respond to your facial expressions as well. The robot can also nod, shake it’s head, sleep and even snore.

One day the world will be taken over by giant teddy bear robots.
Click through for a video of exciting teddy bear action.

via (PC World)

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Tags: fujitsu, japan, teddy bear

Zbits or Zibits? Anyway, these amazing tiny robots called Zbits on Think Geek are now available on Think Geek for only $14.99.

Collect all 4 models

1. Urban Tech 2, Code Name “Dex”

2. Urban Tech 1, Code Name “Sproc”

3. Vintage Tech 2, Code Name “Go-B”

4. Vintage Tech 1, Code Name “Tank”

Or check out more models for only $9.99 from BotabingBotaboom. Our favorite model on BotabingBotaboom has to be this guy.

Urban Tech: Black & Green.

Oh, looks like these cute little guys are everywhere, even on Amazon.

Now you have no excuse for not creating your mini robot army.

See our previous post about them complete with a video – Zibits Mini R/C Robots.

Tags: min, r/c, zbit, zibit

YouTube poster robothut has created an amazing robot called Fire Chief  from a Chief Smoky robot that actually sends smoke out of the fire hose nozzle.

So here is my version of the Fire Chief robot. The firs effect in the chest turned out very well, I used a rotating wrinkle foil drum that colored lights reflect off of just like the fake fire units do, but again the digital camera does not like to shoot in to the lit effect. The smoker hose effect turned out great! The tip of the hose is the smoke fluid cartridge so if need be it can be replaced , the hearter is on the end of the hose and the power to the heater runs inside the hose. The hose is fed air buy a small air pump that came from a junked out blood pressure machine.

Great job robothut! Click through for a short video.

Link via (Danefield)
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Tags: hack

Well, it doesn’t look anything like a parrot, but is a  damn cool drone controlled by your iPhone!

Recently unveiled at the CES being currently held in Las Vegas, this drone is designed to fly inside or outside, seems easy to control and comes with 2 augmented reality games.

This drone is really a WiFi enabled helicopter with 4 blades and 2 cameras.  It also comes with a hull that surrounds the blades for indoor flights.  No word yet on pricing or availability.

Click through for a video of the drone in action.

Link via (Forbes)

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Tags: CES, drone, iphone