Tag: WowWee
Tech Digest's Robot World Cup: Round Two
Robots: they haven’t taken over the world yet, but they’re already capable of pouring us beer and controlling our home entertainment. If that’s not a crafty strategy for leaving us sofa-bound while they stage a cyber-coup at some point in the future, I don’t know what is.
Tech Digest's Robot World Cup: Round 1
Forget the football World Cup. It’s not as if England are ever going to win it again after all. No, the only World Cup worth caring about is Tech Digest’s Robot World Cup, where we’re pitching 64 of the planet’s best bots into a knockout competition to find out who’s best.
Get your hands on a Roboquad spider robot
Well, preorder one, anyway. You might remember Roboquad from Susi’s video preview in January this year. He’s a four-legged spiderbot from the same people who brought you the very-fine Robosapien.
CES 2007: WowWee's Robopanda and FlyTech Dragonfly
WowWee really are excelling themselves at CES this year, the Tech Digest team are not only impressed with the Elvis-bot they’re showing, but the chaps who brought us the Robosapien back in the day have recently given us a sneak peek at a couple of their new products. Firstly, the sweet-as-apple-pie Robopanda has a head-mounted IR sensor, stereo sound, a fair amount of advanced sensors, and the best thing, it also reads bedtime stories, enabling it to be not only toddler-friendly, but busy-parent friendly as well. The next best thing in the line-up is the FlyTech Dragonfly, apparently the ‘world’s first radio-controlled flying insect’, which has 150 feet of wireless range, and can fly for 10 minutes, before needing a charge-up.
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CES 2007: The Elvis Bot from WowWee
So what do you make after you've churned out the best robots on the planet? Well WowWee, makers of the Robosapien and its chums, hope to all shake up the bot scene with this fabulous new Elvis-bot. It is apparently…
Control Robosapien with your wiimote
Over at WiiWii.tv – Shiny's Nintendo Wii blog – you can now read about how to control your Robosapien with nothing but your wii remote and voice. This new wiimote "hack"
