Those cute little Landroids (disposable robots that work together to form a mobile local area network for soldiers) that iRobot is developing for DARPA have been evolving, and now sport all kinds of new hardware, including: -Cliff sensors -Front obstacle sensors -Yaw sensors -Four video cameras -Two way audio -And an optional laser scanner Check out the vid […]

The robotics journal Autonomous Robots has its own blog, which is intended to take the hardcore robot news from the journal and make it a bit more reader friendly. They also link back to the journal articles, should you need a little of that hardcore techy info. Yeah baby. Anyway, looking back through some of [...] […]

Robot plants are not new to BotJunkie, but creepy ones are. Not that this robot plant is intended to be creepy, but like everything in the Uncanny Valley, it just sort of ends up that way. Or maybe it’s just me. Each of the plant’s 169 artificial leaves is controlled by a piece of shape memory [...] […]

With just a little bitty Army contract, you can take that robot paintball turret that we saw a week or so ago, mount it on a QinetiQ SWIFT (an intermediate prototype between this and this), and rig it up to be controlled by head movements. It’s not just for the cool factor (although there’s definitely [...] […]

Building robots has never been a cheap hobby, but you can offset the expense a bit simply by winning this contest sponsored by Trossen Robotics. They want you to make a robot, any robot, and as long as it’s more super incredibly awesome than any other robot ever made it’s pretty much guaranteed to win [...] […]

We were among the very first to see the latest generation of Stanford’s gecko-inspired climbing robot, Stickybot III, earlier this year at the Stanford National Robotics Week event. While Stickbot III could stick to surfaces, the climbing technique (one of those harder than it sounds things) was still in the works. Just recently, they’ve figured [...] […]