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With a long 8 years’ development and improvement, the New Zealand-based Rex Company have finally come up with this robotic exoskeleton, which can help wheelchair users to stand and walk independently. The artificial exoskeleton is comprised of 29 on-board computer processors to control its movements and keep balance, thus to enable the Rex users to conveniently direct the device to sit, stand, walk and turn. Although the device is bit of heavier, measuring 38 Kg in total, it won’t become a burden to the users at all. Instead, the robotic exoskeleton may help to support up 60% of weight of its users, so that they could move with the Rex with minimum effort.

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Innvo Labs’ Self-adjusting Robot Pillow is a product that can ensure you a good night’s sleep by automatically adjusting its shapes and heights according to your body’s position. The pillow is filled with a set of inflatable air chambers inside, with a pressure-sensitive thin mat connected outside. When use the pillow, you simply need to turn on the mat, place your shoulders on it, and then your head will be cradled in the most comfortable way during your sleep. The continual inflating and deflating of the air chambers is done so slowly that you wouldn’t feel it at all – thus you needn’t worry that the pillow may affect your sleep.

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Snoring is something like smoking, as it not only destroys the health of the person who makes it, but brings bad influences to people around. We need to stop the snoring, and obviously the robotic bear pillow is a possible method. It would paw at your face if you’re snoring, encouraging you to move your head from side to side and thus to stop snoring. Will the robotic bear pillow really work? Let’s go through the video to see its performance then.

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The “Sphero” is the world’s first robotic ball that can be controlled by an iPhone or Android device. It comes with a semi-opaque white look, along with an inductive charger to reenergize it. The users simply need to load down certain free apps for the ball, open the Bluetooth of their iPhones, and then they can control the ball to accomplish certain tasks. Planned to be sold in December for about $130, the “Sphero” can now be ordered on its official website. Go and check for more information if you’re interested.

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How dexterous a hand can a robot have? Probably we would get an answer from the DLR’s Anthropomorphic Hand-Arm-System. The hand consists of 52 drives and more than 100 sensors, and therefore all its tendons feature 19 degrees of freedom (the tendons of human’s hands equate to 20 degrees of freedom). That’s really amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Plant Robot, designed by Japan-based Akira Nakayasu, gets its name not only from the same shape as real plants, but also from the fact that it can make the leaves wave too. It has 169 mechanical branches and each of them is controlled by a separate engine. As a result, the leaves will wave automatically when you sweep your hands across them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A Czech-based student, using Arduino programming, creates this innovative lamp that would automatically run into dark space and illuminate it. It features an “S” shape, consisting of wheels, lights and several other parts. It is also endowed with “life”, which means that the lamp will be nodding its head when giving out light. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With more and more people wishing to journey round the world on bikes, it was only a matter of time to see the Robotic Bicycle Partner accompany you guys on the travel. The robot “Joules” can push pedals like a person and creates enough power to have the electric tandem bicycle move forward. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thanks to Rex Exoskeleton and the bionic legs, those who have been leg-impaired can stand up again and walk as easily as normal people. More importantly, the Rex Bionic Legs allow the users to self transfer themselves in and out without any external help. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Coming from Carnegie Mellon University, Snackbot takes the very name from one of its main jobs: to serve snacks. And the other job of the robot is to serve as a research platform for kinds of researches. It is intended for both fully autonomous and semi-autonomous operation. With various sensors built in, Snackbot could communicate with people through verbal and non-verbal mechanisms, participate in simple sociable activities, distinguish those people around it and learn to recognize new objectives, etc. In one word, Snackbot is a cute-looking robot with various skills. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This pool skimmer is driven by the solar power and lets you keep your swimming pool clean in an eco-friendly way. With a pair of solar panels on the top of the skimmer to collect the sun’s energy and store it in a rechargeable NiMH battery, the pool skimmer also can change the station and reduce the work intensity automatically, according to the environment.

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Plants cannot response to us as animals, and so plant toy is rarely. But this robotic plant from Sega toy is an exception. It could respond to your speech with physical reactions using an internal “bio metal” that moves and bends depending on the current put through it. Based on the patterns in human speech detected by the chip of the plant, it can response to you by bending the stem and moving the leaves. [Read the rest of this entry...]

To be frank, feeding fish is a tedious job which is absolutely fit for robot. So you should just try this robotic fish feeder. What you should do is to fill the container with bait, then it will do the rest job for you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you think this robot can insert the plug by himself? Help him! [Read the rest of this entry...]

This suitcase could always follow the user with the help of built-in detector. What you should do is just take a card. [Read the rest of this entry...]