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VORTEX: Robot for Kids

This is a creative toy with real STEM (Science, Technology, Math & Engineering) potential that could inspire your kids to learn how to design, code, and invent. 

DFRobot, a company that has been building robots for the education market since 2008, this week introduced its first attempt at making a robot accessible to all children, with the debut of Vortex – an interactive, programmable robot aimed at kids 6 and up.

Robotic Iron that can remove wrinkles from your clothes

Scientists at Columbia University have developed a robot that can flawlessly iron clothes. Such was the achievement that the researchers came up with the name 'dynamic ironing' for when the robot was moving.  The robot uses sensors and a 'wrinkle analysis algorithm' to ensure shirts, trousers and other items come out looking as if they were ironed by a human.

Robotic cats to keep you company

Toy maker Hasbro Inc. last week unveiled its first product designed specifically for older consumers: a $99 robotic cat that’s programmed to roll over and purr when it’s petted and stroked.

It will not leap in your lap or walk over your keyboard, but it won’t claw your sofa to shreds, either. And when you pet it, a combination of sensors translates the gesture as a cue for the robot to meow and purr, or to turn over.

Insect-sized RoboBee tiny robot can fly and swim

Engineers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) want to change that with the RoboBee, which has claimed the title of the first insect-insect sized robot that can swim as well as fly.

Building a machine that can operate both in the air and underwater is an exercise in contradictions. An airplane fuselage must be light, while a submarine's hull must be strong. An airplane needs to be narrow, while a submarine is best when shaped like a whale or fat cylinder.

Above all, an airplane needs wings for lift, while a submarine needs to be smooth to reduce drag. Though various engineers have worked for decades to create flying submarines, the results have always been something that is neither a very good airplane, nor a very good submarine.

Star Wars droid BB-8 is a new gift for children

Toy retailers are excited about Christmas, in fact this week, an American manufacturer unveiled the toy that many in the industry believe will be the knock-’em-dead hit with children across the world this year. It’s a cute-looking orange, white and grey robot with a giant football of a body and a small bowl-shaped head on top.

Robotics company Sphero partners with Disney to make pint-sized version of new Star Wars droid kids and big kids can now own.

Disney Adorable Robot To Etch Massive Pictures Onto The Beach

“Beachbot” developed by Disney, works by dragging a set of pins through the sand, sort of like a rake. Each pin is individually reusable, allowing the robot to draw lines of varying thicknesses. More pins down = thicker lines drawn.

The artist behind the robot starts a canvas by setting down poles, which the robot uses as markers to finely calculate its position. At that point, the robot can be passed an image file to draw automatically, or the artists can steer it manually.

Turtle robots to help scientists in marine research

With an aim of helping scientists in underwater tasks, engineers from Singapore have created smart turtle robot that can conduct many marine operations including cable inspections, checking underwater pipes, ship hull or a propeller’s shaft.

A team led by an Indian-origin scientist, Associate Professor S K Panda from the National University of Singapore have underwater robots that resemble water living species. One prototype looks like a turtle; three resembles different species of fish and fifth is a spherical model similar to a jellyfish. “We expect to invent robots capable of performing collaborative intervention missions three to five years down the road.

Nail-painting robots and walking sticks Tokyo exhibits latest innovations to help the old people

An industrial robot that paints nails and walking stick that behaves like a guide dog were just some of the innovations displayed at a huge expo in Tokyo today.

The International Robot Exhibition aimed to provide a glimpse into future technologies that could make life easier for the elderly and their caregivers. The organisers claim assisted living could potentially be big business in Japan where a quarter of the 128-million population is aged over 65.

Smart Robotic Technology Agile Robots Will Rule in 2015

Computer scientists have created machines that have the balance and agility to walk and run across rough and uneven terrain, making them far more useful in navigating human environments. Walking is an extraordinary feat of biomechanical engineering.

Every step requires balance and the ability to adapt to instability in a split second. It requires quickly adjusting where your foot will land and calculating how much force to apply to change direction suddenly. No wonder, then, that until now robots have not been very good at it.