Vstone, a Japanese manufacturing company, is currently producing robots of the adorable variety. The idea behind these tiny robots is to bring the robotics hobby to a wider audience with smaller, cheaper programmable units to get a feel for how real bots can operate.
from Robot Gossip:
The Robovie-i is a small and relatively inexpensive robot […]

As I have mentioned before, I love watching robots pitted against each other for our amusement. The robotics displayed here are very impressive, yet we are still a ways off from the Transformers style battles we all know are coming in the future.
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This video clip of the smooth little bot named ‘Plen‘ demonstrates a few of his more impressive abilities. Particularly impressive is the little guy’s figure skating routine. I suppose that if you can get a robot to walk, it’s not too hard to get him to skate, but it still […]

Wanting to expand the grasping ability of modern robots, US researchers have developed an interesting new technology. Known as “Octarms”, these tentacle-like attachments seem to resemble an octopus’s limb or an elephant’s trunk and can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects. These tentacles can be attached to current robots to […]