The world’s fastest legged micro-robotic toy
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- 01 September 2010, 21:14
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Maker Desk Pets claims Skitterbot is the fastest commercially available legged micro-robot. It is powered by USB, and it takes 30 minutes to charge this guy for about 15 minutes worth of play.
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Nice Robot Sells Ice Cream
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- 18 August 2010, 21:29
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Yaskawa-kun is Japan’s latest robot that can make and sell ice cream. At present, he is working at Tokyo Summerland, a big theme park, where he will replace human workers until August 22.
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Super Terrifying Robot Bad Cop
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- 01 August 2010, 19:52
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This is artist Jamie Martin's Cybernetic Autonomous Remote Barricade police robot, equipped with armor, impulse cannons, and smoke screens. If that sounds like a bad idea, Martin's one step ahead of you; he made this video of it going rogue:
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WowWee Roboscooper
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- 01 August 2010, 18:13
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Robotics company WowWee has launched its latest domestic ‘bot offering, and Wall-E was their inspiration. The WowWee Roboscooper is a six-wheeled remote-controlled robot with a big set of grabbing hands that can pick up objects and put them in the cargo bay at the back.
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WALL-E: Transformable Lego Robot
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- 20 July 2010, 00:45
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The Lego NXT wall-e transformable robot is fully self controlled It uses Lego Mindstorms programming environment.
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The Robotic Butterfly
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- 18 July 2010, 18:42
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No one can deny that some global changes are happening on our Planet: overpopulation, global warming, ozone holes. As animals and insects which are referred to the Red Book are disappearing, scientists have found their way to replace them — the mechanical butterfly that can survive anything but perhaps an attack of rust.
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Robot is Learning to Fix Satellites
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- 16 July 2010, 15:04
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Justin is a skillful humanoid robot that learned to make coffee. Now it's learning to fix satellites.
Justin was developed at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Wessling, Germany.
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Robot Drummer
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- 16 July 2010, 03:54
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The Robot Drummer at Gold Coast Big Day Out 2008
Introducing the Future of Realistic Live-Fire Training
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- 14 December 2009, 18:29
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Every service strives to establish a challenging marksmanship training program but is constrained by the limitations of currently available technologies. Traditional targetry systems such as rails and pop-ups are fundamentally limited and inflexible in presenting realistic challenging targets. Now Marathon Robotics has created an innovative solution which eliminates the current constraints and introduces a step change in quality of training.
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