Tag archive for "robots"
It is that time of year where the Holiday spirit and cheer starts to come out full steam. Google isn’t wasting any time and today have updated their highly popular avatar creating Androidify application. Boys and girls it’s time to redo your good looks and Androidify yourself with a nice holiday twist.
Who is ready for more Android-controlled robots? Today we present you with more details about that awesome robotic ball project called Sphero. We mentioned this unique product back in September and received some hands-on with Sphero shortly after, but today they are finally available for pre-order and soon you can enjoy one too.
Check out this little robot from The Corpora named Qbo, controlled by Android it hears and sees everything and will in return send back all the information to you. Head to the office without leaving your home, attend a meeting while sitting at a coffee shop or laying by the pool. All this is possible [...]
Our team was lucky enough to stumble into some cute little robots while roaming around at Google I/O today. What we have here is a little hands-on video of Hasbro’s Robot Toys that are being powered by a Google Nexus S. These robots are walking around at will, no talking yet though. Hasbro and Google [...]
We’ve covered Cellbots on Android Community before, an open-source way to use your smartphone as a brain for a simple robot, but the project has released a new java app which supports not only custom, Arduino-based Cellbots but iRobot Create, LEGO MINDSTORMS and VEX Pro. Requiring Android 2.2 or above, the new app allows you [...]
Unsurprisingly Android’s robot theme leads to plenty of ‘bot related mods and projects, and we’re particularly keen on Hideyuki Takei and Reo Matsumura‘s Android-Robo. Basically a motorized Android model that has flashing eyes, a rotating head and articulated arms – and that can make all manner of R2D2-style bleeps and gurgles – the ‘bot can be [...]
At this year’s Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, visitors were treated to a bunch of cool prototypes. Some of these included robots powered by Android. The robots were powered by G1’s, Droids and a few Nexus Ones.
It’s safe to say that we can file this under the totally cool category of robots. This little invention uses a Droid to solve a Rubik’s Cube. We’ve all tried to solve this thing and one point or another in our life and those of us that didn’t move the colored stickers around probably failed. [...]
The Cellbots project – using an Android smartphone as the brain for a relatively cheap robot – has had an upgrade, with a dashing new neon green chassis and, more impressively, voice control. The system takes advantage of Android’s native voice recognition engine, and allows the Cellbot robot to be controlled via speech commands.
It’s not unheard of that Android smartphones can be used to control other devices, say with the GMote app for remote media playback on your computer. But Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman, a duo of web engineers, are going beyond the “remote control” concept, having built an Android-powered robot with the lofty ambitions of autonomously [...]
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