Robots

$2,400 Robotic Gymnast

$2,400 Robotic Gymnast

Every year the same holiday question arises: what to get for the man/woman who has everything?  Chances are he doesn’t have Hammacher’s Advanced Acrobatic Robot. This 13-inch tall toy includes 17 servos that work in unison with an [...]

Boxing Robots Make “Real Steel”…Real

Boxing Robots Make “Real Steel”…Real

Watching Hugh Jackman pound robot heads into submission last month didn’t quite fill our mechanized fighting needs.  These Bionic Bopper Cars from Hammacher will surely fill the void, though. Remember bumper cars?  Add a head, robotic arms [...]

All New ASIMO Humanoid Robot Revealed (video)

All New ASIMO Humanoid Robot Revealed (video)

Remember Honda’s ASIMO that could walk upright and traverse a set of stairs?  Today, they unveiled an all new version that can run at an uncanny speed both forwards backwards.  It also has the ability to jump [...]

Sphero Robotic Ball is Controlled by your iPhone (video)

Sphero Robotic Ball is Controlled by your iPhone (video)

Cat videos are some of the most popular on the net.  So its only logical to develop a product that further facilitates what is inevitably a complete waste of time and bandwidth.  That product is the Sphero. The Sphero is [...]

8 Top Tech Videos and Gadgets for the Week August 22nd (list) (video)

8 Top Tech Videos and Gadgets for the Week August 22nd (list) (video)

It’s been an interesting week in the tech world! To sum up everything for you, we’ve compiled some of the coolest tech videos and products for the week so that you don’t have to scour the [...]

15 Year Old Girl Receives an Affordable Bionic Hand (video)

15 Year Old Girl Receives an Affordable Bionic Hand (video)

Every day we wake up, wash our hands, brush our teeth, fix something to eat and drive to work.  We take all of these simple tasks for granted.  But not one teenager in London.  Chloe Holmes, [...]

iChef Oven Is Smarter Than A Microwave

iChef Oven Is Smarter Than A Microwave

Automatic oven meets robot chef with a memorized cookbook, together they form the iChef. Gorenje, an European appliance maker, ships their oven model together with a computer brain that’s capable of fully automizing nearly every culinary [...]

Puny Telepresence MIDBot Will Get Eaten Alive By Future Robots

Puny Telepresence MIDBot Will Get Eaten Alive By Future Robots

Brando’s MIDbot takes your laptop for a stroll around the house when you’re away, patrolling ominously and rather slowly, but what do you want – this ain’t 2030. Billed as an ultra low cost ‘telepresence robot’, [...]

Never Buy This For Your Kid. Never. (video)

Never Buy This For Your Kid. Never. (video)

Cost of making your kid impervious to bullies? $21,600. Possible cost to society resulting from outfitting a young boy with a Japanese built 400lb hydraulic mech-suit? Does not compute. Children are not the mellowest of creatures, [...]

The PR2 Robot Now Does Laundry (video)

The PR2 Robot Now Does Laundry (video)

Last time we saw the PR2 robot, it was fetching beer and playing pool. But while its latest act is a little less fun, it’s more practical — folding socks. After Willow Garage sponsored a competition [...]