Disney will be releasing a new animated movie this summer called Wall-E about a lonely robot. See a preview trailer here.

Disney has teamed up with WowWee Robotics to produce a real robotic version of Wall-E. The big unveiling will be at the Maker Faire in May. Who knew Disney was into DIY.
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The HortiBot created by Danish agricultural scientists is a $71,000 weed wacker. It can identify 25 types of weeds and eradicate them. It moves around on wheels and coordinates itself by using GPS. Link via (Engadget)

Thanks to everyone who entered our T-shirt Giveaway contest. The winner is Harold with his amazing Thermo-Bot [...]

Robocop can soon live on thanks to iRobot forming a partnership with Taser International. In Chicago on July 9- 10, the two companies will demonstrate the new model.

“I could see rent-a-cop companies wanting to buy it, I can see corrections departments wanting to buy it, because it might be seen as a cost-effective alternative to [...]

iRobot from Burlington Massachusetts has secured $50 million in credit from Bank of America. The speculation is that they will be acquiring another company soon. Link via (Robot Stock News)
Vision Robotics from San Diego is working on a robotic harvester. This robot will be used to harvest and trim grapevines. [...]

Sciencentral has a nice article about household robots complete with a short video of Domo pictured here. Domo was created by Aaron edsinger at MIT. See our previous post about Domo here or see the sciencetral article here.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has started renting out it’s Wakamu robots shown on your left. [...]