Tag Archives: telerobot

A True War Veteran, The AR100B Drone Chopper Has Logged More Than 1,200 Missions In Afghanistan

At less than a kilogram total weight, a max payload of 200 grams, and just one meter in diameter the [...]

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Microscopic Drug-Delivering Robot Operates In Eye

Robots have been trying to invade our bodies for years. Now they’ve found a way to get in our eyes [...]

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Robots Enter Crippled Japanese Reactor For First Time

The trend to put robots in harm’s way, instead of humans, continues. On April 17th a pair of robots entered [...]

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Robotic Warfare Draws Closer as Robot Jet Fighter Passes Two More Flight Tests

At first glance the X-47B might look like the portly little brother of the B2 Stealth Bomber, but among unmanned [...]

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Anybots Has An Army of Telepresence Robots Ready to Send Your Way!

There’s little in this world that will frustrate us technophile types more than having to wait for our robots to [...]

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Teroos – The Telepresence Robot You Wear On Your Shoulder (video)

Attention all pirates of the future, I’ve just found the 21st century version of the squawking parrot sidekick. Developed at [...]

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PaPeRo Is the TeleRobot Cute Enough To Kill Your Landline and Take Its Place

When you’re a super cute blushing robot, humans will let you get away with murder. Especially if the thing you’re [...]

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Is This Video A Preview of Apple’s New Robot? I’ve Got Exclusive Info!

I love a good mystery, especially when I already know the answer. Early this week someone sent Sanford Dickert a [...]

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Texas Student Attends School as a Robot – A Sign of Things to Come

Freshman Lyndon Baty’s immune system is so fragile he can’t risk being surrounded by people his own age, yet he [...]

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Celebrate Together When You’re Worlds Apart: Virtual Holiday Dinner (video)

This holiday season 156 people living on six different continents got to eat dinner with their closest friends and loved [...]

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Actroid F Female Telepresence Robot Looks Super Real, Creepy

When you speak with your family over a webcam they may be able to see your face, but they don’t [...]

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Telenoid – The Creepiest Telepresence Robot You’ll Ever Love (video)

Imagine talking to your friends through a robotic copy of Casper the Friendly Ghost. That’s what I imagine it must [...]

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RoboDynamics Reveals Hard Truth About Telepresence Robots

Like many of us, Fred Nikgohar remembers watching Star Wars and dreaming of the day he would have robots of [...]

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Taking a Ride Inside RoboDynamics TiLR Tele-Robot (video)

My job has its perks and one of the best is test driving robots. I recently had a chance to [...]

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Inside Anybots And The Rise of Human-Size Telepresence Robots (videos)

*Updated 7/12/10 Telerobots are here. Anybots wants to put you inside a robot. The Silicon Valley startup recently announced that [...]

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Anybots Debuts New $15k Telepresence Robot, Is it a Fail? (video)

Anybots, the telepresence startup out of Silicon Valley, wants to bring robots to the workplace. Their new QB telerobot lets [...]

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Creepy but Very Life-Like Telepresence Replicant from Kokoro (video)

In the future, those unable to attend a meeting in person may decide to send a creepy robot in their [...]

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Willow Garage Shares Specs for TeleRobot, Takes It To Show and Tell at School

Wouldn’t you have loved to be the kid who brought a real life working robot to school for show and [...]

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MeBot, the Telepresence Robot With Body Language (Video)

It may not make sense to your binary minds, robots, but humans talk with their hands. Thankfully, engineers at the [...]

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