Palm-sized DIY AI Robot Dog Petoi Bittle oozes STEM in the fun, intriguing, and alarmingly adept quadruped. https://youtu.be/MEhJzbhxm8A In one day OpenCat, the Creator, received $50K for Petoi Bittle on Kickstarter. Unlike most of the open source Pi-powered…
Robot Dog pulls 3-ton plane Ray Bradbury turns over in grave 451 times. https://youtu.be/pLsNs1ZS_TI Why? Well, this is not science fiction. ITT’s (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) HyQReal robot dog pulled a three-ton Piaggio P180 Avanti passenger airplane …
ORIGIBOT2 Telepresence Robot Platform with Arm & Gripper can unlock a deadbolt when your keys are conveniently locked inside the house. https://youtu.be/zspu_HLd4H4 Get involved with the newest bot on the block the ORIGIBOT2. The Arduino-powered ORIGIBOT2…
In an ever-widening world of artificial intelligence and a robotics golden age, the DJ Roomba of mops is here in the Everybot Robotic Spin Mop. https://youtu.be/Z1IGRUB0_yM Rarely has such ingenuity wiped clean manual labor! But it has. The semi-autonomous…
The Ghost Minitaur is proof of our entering into a golden age of robotics, as this powerful robot opens doors, climbs fences, and leaps and bounds up stairs. https://youtu.be/_YrWX9ez3jM Ghost Robotics gives us a three-foot tall superhero of a bot. The…
COWAROBOT R1 is made to roll beside you, as a robotic piece of luggage that moves around obstacles, has a smart lock, and is your fully autonomous way to travel. https://youtu.be/CI2KelDN-fQ Has Skynet invented this R1 unit, or has COWAROBOT? They claim this…
Your inevitable doom has never looked so cute thanks to KamiBot, a project currently up for backing on Indiegogo. KamiBot combines papercraft projects with an adorable, hockey puck shaped, LED laden robot that can be controlled from a smartphone or set to follow a…
This is the droid you’re looking for, it is the droid everyone is looking for, and the Star Wars toy franchise kicks off its Super Bowl with the Sphero BB-8 droid officially going on sale today! The cute rotating orb with a head from the first trailer for the…
Boston Dynamics continues to push the boundaries of possibility in robotics, as their 6 foot 2” Atlas biped is now being spotted stalking woods in Massachusetts. And Atlas is learning karate! Watch Atlas mimic The Karate Kid’s Ralph Macchio in an eerie…
Thanks to an innovative human-machine interface crafted at MIT, HERMES, a disaster relief bipedal robot boasts human reflexes and balance. PhD student Joao Ramos demonstrates the Balance Feedback Interface, a system that enables an operator to control the…
Rarely has Geek Weekly ever seen a more amazing and legendary pinnacle of geekdom as the life-size, remote controlled, R2-D2 Fridge! Our favorite droid from Star Wars is ready to bring you drinks. This full size R2 unit has all the sounds and detailed…
Take a semi-autonomous brain, add an action camera, and an underwater capable drone, and you have the sweet and innocent sounding Lily. For photographers and film directors needing key footage in an action sequence, Lily could be the next big thing. But…