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RC flying with augmented reality – Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter

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Imagine you are the pilot of an aircraft that flies like a dragonfly, and with an on-board video camera, you see exactly what the pilot sees. Imagine no more because Parrot, a company that develops wireless devices for mobile phones, came up with AR.Drone – a remote controlled quadricopter. Unlike similar remote controlled flyers, these ... »

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A toy robotic arm or a teaching aid? Both.

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Here is another article about an affordable toy which can be used as a teaching aid in basic robotics. The award winning Robotic Arm Trainer made by OWI is a robotic arm technology which can be bought assembled or in parts, leaving the joy of robot buildup to you. It has a lifting capacity of ... »

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New extinction of robotic pets – Pleo the dinosaur euthanized

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It is a trend around the world to cancel the production of projects which bring the joy to our children or the child within us all. Sony stopped producing the lovable doggy AIBO and the development of their very agile dancing robot QRIO in the beginning of the year 2006. Ugobe, the Idaho-based consumer robotics ... »

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WowWee’s robotic toy – RS Wrex the Dawg

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WowWee was founded in 1988 as an independent research, development and manufacturing company, focused on cutting-edge technologies. Although they produced many different robotic toys since 2004, we are going to focus on one of their most humoristic creations – RS Wrex the Dawg. RS Wrex the Dawg is a mid-priced toy robot which can bring ... »

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Inovation First HEXBUG robots – Ant, Original, Inchworm and Crab

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In need to find a new and cheap toy to entertain young children or yourself when being idle? Read this article and decide which one of the HEXBUG robot-toys is most suitable for you. After releasing their Original HEXBUG robot the Texas based manufacturer Innovation First introduced their, by so far, latest HEXBUG Ant at ... »