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RC Combat Robot – Fingertech Viper

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Trossen Robotics is offering a great way to easily and cheaply build a combat robot. This really is an amazing deal that for under 200 bucks you can have a fully funtional RC robot with spare channels for your own weapons.  This ought to open up the field to a lot more combat robots.  I’m [...]

Trossen Robotics End Of School Sale Coupon Code

Monday, May 17th, 2010

School’s Out!  Well, close enough. Either way, you can take advantage of the end of school sale at Trossen Robotics.  Right now they’re giving 10% off everything they stock. Perty cool! I’m glad I’ve been saving my milk money. Time to get myself an updated robot. If you’ve been doing your homework (sorry for all [...]

Trossen Robotics Officially Close Their Robotics Toys Website

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Trossen Robotics has announced the closing of their sister store roboticstoys.com.

Robotiq Has A New Robotic Hand

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Robotiq is a new Canadian startup which came out of the Laval University Robotics Lab. The video above shows an amazing demonstration of the adaptability of this hand. Watch it pick up just about every weird shape imaginable without any problems. Their first product is this amazing three-fingered robot hand called the “Adaptive Gripper.” It [...]

Mech Robots at Robogame 2010

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

This video is an amazing display of robotics technology in the competition arena.  Much more sophisticated than the remote controlled BattleBots (in my opinion).  The telepresence is a cool factor that really puts you in the driver’s seat (literally!). I definitely am going to be building a competitor for next year’s games. Most of these [...]

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