It may be one of the most unusual robotic applications to appear — ever — but you have to admit that artist Seth Weiner’s robotic fishbowl is one interesting piece of work. According to a few posts and news stories scattered about the web (see sources, below), this creation — dubbed “The Terranaut Project” — [...]

Some enterprising robotics engineers have managed to turn a Mac Mini computer into a “mobile mac mini”, or M3 for short. According to an article by one of the engineers posted over at MacMod.com, the creation was developed as an entry into the Great Mac Mod Challenge 2006, a yearly competition designed to bring out the [...]

According to a recent AP story by Yuri Kageyama, a company called ZMP Inc. has developed a new robotic device — dubbed the Miuro — that works with Apple’s ubiquitous iPod. According to the article, the $930 gadget features a top-loading slot for the iPod and two large dome-like wheels for locomotion. It can be [...]

Easily one of the most intriguing robotic applications we’ve come across, Sanswire Networks has hired a team of ex-NASA scientists and engineers to develop a cellular network which relies on a sysem of robotic blimps. Designed to operate roughly 12 miles from the earth’s surface — around 60,000 feet — this network of robotic blimps [...]

While the pages of science fiction novels are saturated with robotic creations sporting a diverse array of ambulatory designs — from skittering, crab-like holoprojectors to robotic serpents — real world robots have historically been somewhat more traditional in their methods of locomotion. Recent years have brought us a host of novel robotic designs, incorporating everything [...]

Kyosho — a large Japanese company known for offering an impressive array of radio controlled (RC) products here in North America — has recently announced an update to its Manoi series of humanoid robots, currently only available in Japan. The current Manoi series is the AT01 (pictured above). According to a post over at Gizmodo, [...]

While many of us have been briefly bemused by the thought of having a clone or two — you know, one to do all the work while your “real” self gets to do all the fun stuff — a researcher in Japan has taken that idea a step further. According to a post over at [...]

The Japanese consumer robotics industry is — in many ways — a few years ahead of the rest of the world. The unveiling of Akazawa’s new PLEN robot serves to underscore that point. As reported over at Digital World Tokyo, the PLEN is a humanoid robot that comes equipped with a pair of roller skates. [...]