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This summer Disney-Pixar will finally unveil its first robotic toy products, the WALL-E animated robot MP3 player. Standing at 8″ tall, this cute robot will create adorable sound effects and perform a special dance while playing your favorite MP3 songs. You can get one of this cute robot for just $25. [Popgadget]
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The Forest Fire Clear Cut Robot is a concept robot to fight future forest fires. It has all the necessary tools to slice trees down to prevent the flames from spreading any further in the forest. The model has 600 parts and took its creator half a year to complete. [Gizmodo]
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The black Sony Rolly is now official. Sony will release this egg-shape portable audio player in the Japanese market. In case you didn’t know, the Rolly is a kind of wireless speaker/audio player with 1GB of internal memory. You can actually interact with it and select the tracks you want to listen to. This autonomous audio player has a battery life of 5 hours when it plays music from its internal memory and 4 hours 30 minutes if the music is streamed to the Rolly via Bluetooth connection. The new black Sony Rolly is expected to be available on 19th April, 2008 for $392. [Akihabara] More
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The ApriPoko robot from Toshiba was developed to learn how to operate various remote controls by watching and asking questions. The robot features sensors that will be able to detect infrared rays coming out from the remote, so each time you press a button, ApriPoko will ask “What did you just do?”, so make sure you answer appropriately because it records your answer to its memory. This prototype robot is still in the development and testing phase. [PinkTentacle]
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COM-BAT is a 6 inch robotic spy-plane that utilities a low-power mini radar and a high sensitive navigation system to help it find its way in the dark. “The bat” is also draws power from the sun, wind, vibration and other sources to recharge its battery. I think this robot will be used for military purpose in the future. [Product Page]
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Some inventors at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have created the Bristlebot 2.0 robot with only a battery, a computer chip, and a cell phone vibrator. Video after the jump. [EvilMadScientist] More
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Husqvarna has just released the world’s first automatic electric solar-powered hybrid robotic lawn mower. Priced at approx. $4000, this lawnmower is able to clear 2,300 square meters of grass and is programmable to work only at certain times or days of the week. That’s amazing! Its battery provides a battery life of 40 minutes. The company official said that on a sunny day, its cutting time can be extended by another 50%. [PocketLint]
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Designer Ji-hoon Kim has designed a concept robot that can solve the oil spills problem. Known as the OSP, the robot can work autonomously together by surrounding an oil spill with an inflatable barrier. After the whole oil spill is surrounded, clean-up crews can get straight to work, sucking all those oils out. The OSP can be easily deployed from a helicopter or boat to accomplish its mission. [Yanko] More
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Invented by a group of veteran Silicon Valley engineers, The Readybot Robot is designed to clean up your kitchen. The goal of the project is to see how much of an average kitchen such a robot can clean. Readybot can currently perform 30-40% of common daily chores and the team believes that with additional programming, that can increase to 50% in another year and eventually 80%. the Readybot prototype is basically a white enamel box with wheels, two human-sized arms and retro chrome styling. The unit fits neatly in the same counter space as a dishwasher and after activation, rolls out, deploys several antenna-like cameras, and raises itself up to human height to begin work. Still no info on availability at this stage. [ReadyBot]
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