It looks as though Asus has decided to join in the floor-cleaning robot wars.
The new ECleaner vac has been just released in China and Taiwan.
Instead of going for the oddness of the Panasonic Fukitorimushi Worm Asus have followed the way of the iRoomba but pricing it at the equivalent of £95 you could well make a saving.
It comes with a self-charging home base and is armed with a spinning side brush, front bumper, a 6000 hour UV light for disinfecting the floor, an air freshener slot as well as a remote control.
You get a choice of two sporty colours (red and yellow) so if you fancy drag-racing these bad-boys you can
The i-Sobot was once crowned as the world’s smallest bipedal humanoid robot and since then I reckon the power and the fame has gone to the little droids head.
Now he’s contacted a mini-arms dealer and bought himself a small arsenal of weaponry which he unleashes upon his fellow toys.
I reckon that there’s more than a [...]
Could this be the cutest way to share you music?
The adorable little robot works as a headphones splitter.
Logically names the Splitter Bot.
Shove your 3.5mm headphone jacks into his eyes….. ouchy! – but could’ve been worse
The helpful bot comes complete with a keychain fitted to its body meaning that the Splitter Bot will never [...]
You’ve got to hand it to DARPA – The brains working on tech for the Pentagon have some far-out ideas including this robotic hummingbird-based drone.
Could little hummingbird spies be helping in futuristic espionage? Not just yet…
Program manager Todd Hylton is aiming for “an approximately 10-gram aircraft that can hover for extended periods, can fly at [...]
We all spend a lot of time at our computers – nuff said.
How many of us have a decent chair – one that doesn’t cripple your ass after 6 hours of Left 4 Dead?
This is a chair I want!!
The Oki Leopard Robot chair – how cool is that name?
The chair is now available in Japan [...]
Fed up of surly bar-staff telling you that you’ve already had waaaaaaay too much to drink?
Would it ease the pain any if a cute little stuffed panda witheald your booze?
Nah – thought not.
That doesn’t stop the SOBEaR, a DIY teddy bear with a built-in breathalyzer, from being totally cool.
All you have to do is press [...]
The QB1 is a robot created by Swiss group OZWE.
QB1 could well be the next step in music players as well as bringing us closer to having interactive bots in the home with specific tasks.
If you think about it; things like Genius playlists and LastFM has altered the way we consume and interact with music and OZWE wants to have the same effect [...]
A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge.
The robot’s AI made a hypothesis about the genomics of a yeast, then planned a test for the hypothesis and finally carried out the test in its lab.
The results were then replicated by human scientists later, confirming that the robot hadn’t cheated and wasn’t [...]
Sony has apparently filed a patent application that shows and describes a little bot buddy for the PS3.
The PS3 robot would sport a camera, display, GPS, Gyro sensor and a microphone.
It looks as though the robot will be able to roam free about your abode autonomously.
Perhaps attach a target onto your pet and watch the battle [...]
If you like your robot tech as well as military hardware then you may have heard of Big Dog.
If the name doesn’t ring a bell just check out this video.
It shows the quadrapedal bot balancing and walking along with US soldiers.
If this isn’t a glimpse into modern, almost sc-fi, warfare I don’t know what is.
Although [...]
Lego has announced that there is to be an update to its rather fabby Lego Mindstorms set this year – a mere trio of years since the last version graced robot clubs around the world.
So, what does NXT 2.0 bring?
Well, there’s the Colour sensor that can be used to let the robot you build [...]
Cute robot alert!!
I just couldn’t help myself.
I had to let you all know about these little bots.
The Takara Tomy’s Robo-Q is the world’s smallest bidpedal robot.
It’s controlled by an infrared remote control and features magnetic feet and a built-in speaker.
You’ll be able to get them in either retro or future flavours.
These little fellas are expected [...]
What ever you do – don’t laugh at this little droid.
Ok, so it might look like a radio-controlled car with an upright shoe-box plonked on it but the Alacom/tmsuk T-34 security bot will take you down!
The T-34 is essentially a remote-controlled security drone operative
It can be controlled by mobile phone if the human wants. [...]
WowWee just loves bots that can spy on folk.
Now there’s a new one and it goes by the unsneaky name of Spyball.
This spherical snooper is designed to roll around before popping out a webcam to beam live pictures over the web (MWAHAhahahahaahh!).
Like other offerings from WowWee the Spyball can be controlled from any web connected PC, and [...]
Torches.
As much as I love my mini Maglite it wont change into a robot scorpion.
But for the princely sum of $10, this Wild Planet LiteFormz Transforming Flashlight can be yours!
It will change from regular torch, to walking funny man, to menacing scorpion.
Bargain – nuff said.
Just a shame that it isn’t an actual robot really.
Go buy [...]
Just as the Skywalker menfolk had the ever faithful and trusty R2-D2 as co-pilot you could be enjoying the company of a similar sidekick if Nissan get their way,
The droid in question is Nissan’s BR23C and it’s planned that a similar robot could take charge of your car.
Mind you, it wont be steering the wheel and shifting gears but would be [...]
Wakamaru is soon to become household name rather than a household servant.
The domestic droid designed and built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry stands 3 feet tall, and weighs about 30kg. It was released in 2005 and costs around £9,000. It can greet guests and provide information like weather forecasts but soon will be tredding rolling the [...]
It’s finally been announced that Sony’s cute dancing MP3 player, aka Rolly, has been given the nod for its European launch!.
It’s said that it will go on sale in October but there’s no price info yet – In the States the gadget costs around the $400 mark so if all things were equal it should [...]
AI Professor, Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University (that’s in South Yorkshire folks!) has announced his findings after spending two months looking at trends and the evolution of robotics around the world.
At the centre of his predictions is the vast amounts of data that robots could store on-board and their ability to access databases containing all [...]
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