You can now get your hands on the new MechRC Humanoid Robot over at Trossen Robotics. They are the first in the United States to offer the Robot, which will cost you $599.99 USD.
It features high torque metal gear servos, LiPo batteries for longer run times, a fluid 3D visual software programming interface for easy custom motions, and a remote control unit is included. It comes with over a hundred pre-installed motions and sounds, so you can make him do some awesome things straight from the box. Check out a dance vid below. Read the rest of this entry »
Though they don’t transform, we really like Hasbro’s Mighty Muggs versions of these robots. You can get a set of 4 individually packaged figs for $49.99
Optimouse Prime? Optimus Mouse? This Disney/Transformers turd is all set to take the money of suckers everywhere. Now in color and looking slightly better then before. Color us unimpressed.
Japanese robot maker HPI will be selling the four-legged robotic G-Dog later this month. The robot dog is powered by a 7.2V nickel metal hydride battery, features nine servomotors and is mostly made of aluminium. It’s sized at 375×135×190mm and weighs 570g. G-Dog can be controlled wirelessly via a Playstation-like joypad. He can sit up and beg, crawl and roll over to its side. Experience tells us that he probably looks cooler then he is, but we shall see.
Oooooh, Robot Galaxy is a store, not an actual galaxy, oooooh. Based on its namesake comic book, Robot Galaxy is a toy store that lets customers create their own robots. A body here, some arms and extenders there, voila, a custom-built killing machine. It’s like Build a Bear but Build a Bot.
This isn’t to teach kids fundamentals of engineering or robotics programming, you’ll find no such brain meltery here. No, no, these robots are simply to let children (or robot-loving adults) flex their creativity.
They do have sound effects, with different sounds corresponding to different robot parts. The robot’s owner will also be able to connect it to the internet, where a virtual representation of the bot will interact with other Robot Galaxy robots online. Developers say that Robot Galaxy is more geared to boys than similar products like Webkins or Neopets.
Robot Galaxy is a small chain with only three stores — one in West Nyack, New York, one in Freehold, New Jersey, and one at the Toys R US in Times Square. With finished bots ranging in price from about $20 to $75, this doesn’t seem like a bad deal. If you’re not near any of those stores you can also make creations online at RobotGalaxy.com.
Aldebaran Robotics has a new video of their humanoid robot, Nao. It’s designed to be an entertainment robot and features limbs with 25 degrees of freedom, usable hands, stereo vision, voice recognition and synthesis, and a programmable Linux OS. Pretty sweet huh? Gets better. Nao is programmable graphically or using code. Sure, you can add software and even behaviors, but you can also customize the hardware. Did Nao just lie to that other bot in the video below? wth?
By the end of next year you’ll be able to buy it from between $15,000 and $16,000. A lying robot is worth every penny. Read the rest of this entry »
We told you about the cool Transforming RCRC car earlier this month. Here’s a video of the vehicle/bot in action. Makes you look forward to driving a real Transformer one day on the road.
Check out the pic above. It’s like when C-3PO got trashed in Cloud City. But it had to be done. No one wants the cheap version of Wall-E when they can have the Ultimate Wall-E. But it’s expensive, so this is the alternative. Trossen Robotics forum member DJ Sures added a bunch of extra servos and a new cpu with 1,000 new lines of code. Chaep Wall-E now has the ability to tilt his head and wave his arms and also autonomously navigate. Video below. Read the rest of this entry »
These toy robot kits from Japan are devoted to beating the crap out of each other. Tamiya’s Robocraft boxing robots come in a kit that’s easy to assemble. Each robot boxer is operated using a wired remote, which lets you control two gearboxes which drive the robot’s punches and movements. The same gears drive the punching action and forward/backward movement, which makes them wobbly and unpredictable. That means awesomeness.
You can even switch between two punch types: upper-cut and straight jab. This ain’t your granddad’s Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots. Tamiya USA sells individual blue boxing ‘bots, along with a little punching bag for $37. Pairs come in colorful pink and yellow for $67. Check out 2 videos below. Read the rest of this entry »
Looks like Mickey Mouse, being the marketing whore that he is, has now become a Transformer. God help us all. Apparently it will cost you $40. Pretty fugly toy for that amount of coinnage.
You can now get your hands on the new MechRC Humanoid Robot over at Trossen Robotics. They are the first in the United States to offer the Robot, which will cost you $599.99 USD.
Oooooh, Robot Galaxy is a store, not an actual galaxy, oooooh. Based on its namesake comic book, Robot Galaxy is a toy store that lets customers create their own robots. A body here, some arms and extenders there, voila, a custom-built killing machine. It’s like Build a Bear but Build a Bot.
