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i-Limb Ultra Revolution with Biosim app

i-Limb Ultra Revolution

A new bionic hand is the first to come with app control, allowing users to access complicated motion patterns-like the grip needed to play pool or right-click a mouse-with a single touchscreen tap.   The i-Limb Ultra Revolution, which has four individually powered fingers and a fully rotating thumb, can also be controlled directly by muscle signals from the wearer. The Biosim [...]

Hitachi ROPITS is a self-driving robot car

Hitachi ROPITS

We’ve seen some cool ideas for self-driving cars, but it’s complicated designing one that can work alongside other, human-driven vehicles. One way to get around that? Make a teeny, tiny car that’s small enough to take to the sidewalks, squeezing through urban walkways instead of the road. Unveiled Tuesday in Tsukuba, Japan, the Hitachi Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System, or [...]

Bartendro cocktail mixing robot pours the perfect mix

Bartendro

Ordering mixed drinks can be a crapshoot sometimes. Is that whiskey sour going to be the same from place to place? More importantly, are the proportions going to be right? Well, worry no more! Bartendro, the iPad-controlled, open-source, awesomely-named robo-bartender is here. Built by the makers at Party Robotics, the ‘bot stores a library of drink ingredients and proportions and, at [...]

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Neato Robotics XV Signature vacuums unveiled

Neato Robotics XV Signature vacuums

Neato Robotics has unveiled the new XV Signature series robot vacuum cleaner. The company has also unveiled the XV Signature Pro with both new models featuring the company’s square front, low-profile design. The robotic vacuum cleaners are both designed to be able to go under furniture and into corners to pick up the most dirt and pet hair possible. The [...]

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HAL Robot Suit gets International Safety Certificate

HAL Robot Suit

We’ve been following the HAL robotic suit for a while now, and for good reason: Look at that thing! That looks like the future right there. And now it’s gotten a worldwide stamp of safety approval. This is how HAL works in a nutshell: Hop in, move an appendage slightly, and the suit detects the movement. After that, it guides your natural [...]

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Grillbot: A Grill Cleaning Robot

Grillbot

iRobot may disapprove of this usage of their trademark, but we don’t care and we’ll just say it: there’s a Roomba for everything these days. The Grillbot, although not at all associated with iRobot or the Roomba, performs much the same task that the carpet cleaning bot does, only on your BBQ. Equipped with a set of rotating bristle brushes, [...]

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AutoMee S: A Roomba for cleaning your smart devices’ screens

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Did you ever think you’d see the day we got lazy enough, as a species, to invent a tiny robot whose only task it is to clean the surfaces of our smartphones and tablets? Because, what, wiping is too hard now? Don’t get us wrong, we think the AutoMee S is pretty awesome, but only in a “look at that cute thing [...]

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Soloshot keeps your camera pointed at you while you surf

Soloshot

Some of you may harbor the desire to create videos of yourselves in the process of committing shenanigans of various sorts, and this always implies a certain amount of logistics. For one, whether these are acts of skillful sporting display, or simply running around while flailing your arms, you’ll usually need a second person to pan the camera to keep [...]

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