Robots

The boys at Coding4Fun really out-did themselves this time. They created Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots and showed them off to the party-goers at last nights opening party for the SXSW Interactive track, host by Frog and Microsoft. Essentially 2 humans each use their own Kinect to…

Joe Farro from the Surface team gives us a tour of PaTTY the robot who is responsible for stress testing the upcoming Surface 2.0 units. PaTTY is capable of testing draw speeds of up to 25 inches per second thanks to a pair of very powerful motors which means she requires constant monitoring to…

Today the robotics group announced the release of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta. You can download RDS 4 beta at Microsoft.com/robotics. This release has extensive support for the Kinect sensor hardware throug the Kinect for Windows SDK allowing developers to create Kinect-enabled…

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…

At the RoboDevelopment Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California, Microsoft released the new version of Microsoft Developer Studio 2008 (Microsoft RDS), the latest version of the robotics programming platform and the third major release in two years. The toolkit allows developers, whether…

I saw this on The Raw Feed, and, I have to say: I want one! This Robot Suitcase will follow you around without bumping into things. A card you carry in your pocket tells the suitcase where you are and then a combination of its software, a gyroscope, light detectors, and sound and infrared…

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…

Love Star Wars? Yep! Interested in a scale replica R2-D2 to follow you around the house playing your favourite music/movies/Xbox 360 games? Hells yeah!!! Got a spare 3000 Euros? ....err.... what was the first question?Along with the R2-D2 entertainment droid (who you control with a model…

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…

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…