Robots

Not only are these dancing robots adorable and fun to play with, but they are also a research tool. The BeatBots team joined forces with Hideki Kozima to study how children, specifically children with autism, interact and communicate. In a world with so much stimuli coming at us…

Yesterday we introduced you to Xian Chaoren , a company from China who make incredibly lifelike humanoid robots. I was fortunate enough to run into this Father / Daughter duo at Wired Magazine's NextFest. After finishing the interview about her fathers twin robot she REALLY wanted to…

Admit it, we've all secretly wanted a robot clone of ourselves. Or, maybe a little robot sibling like on that show Small Wonder. Well, the reality is that we are not too far from all that happening. This father / daughter team, whose company is named Xian Chaoren,  has created the most lifelike…

Introduced in December 2006, Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. On July 9th, a new version of this developer toolkit was introduced. The new Microsoft…

Mark and Bill Sherman have taken their love and passion for robotics and turned it into an artform. And by "artform", I mean ArtBots. I swung by their booth this year at Maker Faire and found out where their inspiration comes from and just what it takes to create your own…

The electric giraffe (aka 'Rave Raffe') is a shy, nocturnal creature of the Playa. It can sometimes be found roaming the streets of suburbia where it elicits awe amongst the spectators. Native of Southern California, the 'Raffe can sometimes be coaxed further afield for special occasions.Enter now…

As you all know I'm a huge for of the Star Wars Trilogy.    As I was wandering the halls of CES my eyes were drawn to the Nikko booth that was showing an R2-D2 Droid Projector and Chewbacca.  So if you want to see Star Wars like you've never seen before watch this piece. 

If you liked the last installment of our coverage of International Robotics then you're going to love this one. If you didn't like teh last one well then you better just sit back and watch this one cuz it's better! More toys, more robots, more funny and one REALLY badass human face shaped LED…

Hello world. Welcome to my inaugural video post for on10!I was in Australia last week and decided to take a trip up to The Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) for some sun, sand, surf and of course, the 8th International Robotics Olympiad (IRO).Expecting to see Johnny 5…

I went overseas...to go back in time. The London Natural History Museum has an amazing exhibit up right now featuring the latest technology in animatronics. Of course, its no fun to show off life-like skin, movements, breathing patterns and feeding trends in little creatures....so they did it…