I know, I know, it's like something out a dream. Finally, there's a robot that can grab a beer out of the fridge. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future. Robots have been around for quite some time, but it isn't until now that many people are beginning to…
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep worry-free of the robot apocalypse, Romo plugs into your iPhone, syncs up – gears moving – and runs rampant across the apartment! This is no futuristic noir fiction; this is reality. However, the Romotive…
The NAO Next Gen is a humanoid robot from Aldebaran Robotics that can recognize your face! That’s right, the NAO Next Gen bot will scan faces using two brains in order to correctly greet and interact with specific people that the NAO knows. The future that…
As of this week, robotic prison warden automatons have been okay-ed to become prison guard staff in South Korean facilities in 2012. This is not a joke, or at least not entirely. The New Year will bring with it many “Rapture” and “end of days”…
The Bot is coming toward you; it stopped. You poke and prod the Bot with a dully-ended pencil; twist the tip in the heart of its gearbox gut. The Pencil Sharpener Robot comes alive and walks! Kikkerland Design has outdone themselves with the ultimate office…
Unique airframe design? Check. Open Source hardware? Check. Open Source software? Check. The ability to hover like a Helicopter, but at the flick of a switch, fly like an airplane? Double check. It seems that the Quadshot has it all and it sure would be hard to…
Who doesn’t want the ability to case their own home while they’re away like a police officer on a big city bomb squad? Well, starting this fall, the Rovio personal surveillance robot from WowWee will allow anyone with an extra $299 lying around to do just that. …
Suddenly we're one step closer to Jetson-era pneumatic transportation tubes and automated dressing machines. The Asahi Beerbot Robocco is angling to become your new best friend (when they're back in stock, of course -- the sudden product availability had enthusiasts…
This is the best example of a smart kid with too much damn free time I have ever seen. If you have ever been sitting around and watching your favorite team in the big game and wanted a beer but didn’t want to wait for a break in the action, you are going to really…
The kind of technology we use to only see in movies or maybe FutureLand at Disney World, thanks to iRobot, is now a reality. The original roomba floor sweeper was pretty cool but it’s not nearly as cool as the new Scooba floor washing robot. Amazingly, Scooba…