A robotic piano playing hand for just $17

Mechanical hands are usually not everyone’s cup of tea. But believe me that you will easily be able to purchase this from your weekend savings. This mechanical hand costs just $17. The device turns itself on when you clap at it. The hand has some gears and levers inside the transparent case that control the [...]

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Spyke: A Wi-Fi enabled spybot

Robots are now being developed in every part of the world. This mass production of these incredible machines has led to a reduction in the price tags. The robot pictured above is a Erector Spyke bot. This amazing robot can be controlled remotely via Wi-Fi and can drive along your home and can even detect [...]

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SteamPunk Walker: A steam powered walking robot

Robots are state of the art machine which usually have some great technology behind their metal bodies. Well this one is a bit different and is a robot that is powered by steam. This amazing walking robot has a boiler at in its head and a engine in its belly. Click here to watch an [...]

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Swiss researchers develop evolving robots

Some Swiss researchers have developed the world’s first robots that can evolve and also can communicate in swarms. When these robots were given a choice between pirated music and music legally purchased from iTunes, five out of the six opted for legal iTunes music. In the demonstration robots choose ‘food’ instead of ‘poison’. Food was [...]

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Sanyo Electric develops Banryu home guard robot

Banryu means a guard dragon and this is what this robot is intended to do. Banryu has been developed by tmsuk and Sanyo Electric and can do each and every thing that a human guard can, except sleeping in working hours. The robot can keep a look-out and can also sniff the air. If it [...]

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Japan develops humanoid robot to help the aged

Japan has moved another step in being a human-free nation by developing this robotic maid that has been specially designed to help the aged. Surprisingly the robot looks like a Gundam and not like some other humanoid robot. The robot has been developed by Kawada Industries Inc. after four years of intense work. The result [...]

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Dexter: First truly bipedal robot that walks the way we do

Dexter could be the very first truly bipedal robot that walks exactly in the human style, balancing from moment to moment. The balancing humanoid robot is an upshot of Trevor Blackwell’s mind. The robot’s makers claim the Dexter to be dissimilar from other robots because those bots necessitate an utterly level or regular floor and [...]

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Robotronics: the new buzz word for Robonova!

Robotronics is not the thing to be seen just in movies now, we as a kid used to think a lot about the future and what it holds for us for store. Wild gizmos and robots at every corner of the street, was what we thought of the future. This one comes pre-assembled so that [...]

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Japanese humanoids need to learn from mistakes

A team of scientists at the Tokyo University lately displayed their new robots that are efficient enough to do more intricate household jobs but still they need to learn more. Among an array of new robotic items, they showed off two new humanoid robots. The HRP-2W humanoid is able to do the household works like [...]

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PaPeRo: A robotic blogger by NEC

PaPeRo is a personal home robot developed by NEC. The most special feature about this robot is that it can blog about its owner on the internet. PaPeRo takes elements of your daily life and blog them on the internet. Whenever you talk to PaPeRo it records and analyses your comments. Then it searches for [...]

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