Lego Mindstorms robot listens to your tweets

This Lego Mindstorms Robot with a Nokia N900 phone as its brain, is a good listener for your tweets. You’re allowed to use your tweets on Twitter to command this Lego robot, to get it into paces according to your tweets.

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Transformer robot built in recycled steel, stands 2.5 meter tall

Meet the 2.5-meter, life-size transformer robot that was made out of recycled steel by RoboSteel. Amazingly, it’s made in at least 5,000 unique parts of recycled steels, including TV parts, car parts and you name it.

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Wearable Robot on your shoulder, lets you carry your friend around

Here comes a wearable robot which is great for the elderly and those who’re injured or disabled, which it allows a mobile person to represent the disabled/elderly in certain events or even shopping in the mall. The Wearable robot is essentially the telepresence of the disabled or elderly, which its has a robot camera worn by the mobile person, to capture and send the live video wirelessly back to the disabled or elderly at afar.

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Robot simulator for a 1-year-old boy

The scary-looking robot shown here is a simulator for a 1-year-old boy. This little bot is called Diego-san, developed by Machine Perception Lab in a collaboration with Japanese Kokoro. The little bot was designed to help scientists to understand more how children develop motor skills and learn gestural communication.

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Tiny solar light-seeking robots

Here come some tiny robots that were handmade using recycled and surplus electronic components of your computers, cellphones and other gadgets. Their eyes are made of two LEDs and they carry solar panels that collect sun juice to power them up and provide them with the walking capability at a speed of 1.5 inches per second in bright sunlight.

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Bluetooth-controlled Remo Humanoid Robot Kit

There are quite a number of humanoid robot kits available, which you could grab one for building your own humanoid robot, if the price was not a matter. Remo (Remote Brain) is another Humanoid Robot Kit that comes equipped with a number of gears including high-quality CCD cameras for image processing and pressure sensors on the feet for balance.

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ASUS ECleaner vacuums and zaps germs with UV light

The Asus ECleaner is another robotic vacuum cleaner but comes with more cleaning capabilities besides simply sucking dust away. The Asus ECleaner has built-in UV light with 6,000 hours life, which zaps away germs while cleaning the floor in your home.

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Robby the Robot USB hub

Here comes the Robby The Robot USB hub, which was built based on the robot from the seminal science-fiction film, Forbidden Planet. The Robot USB hub offers 4 USB ports for your USB gadgets.

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Robotic baby simulator

Yotaro, a robotic baby simulator that has been developed by researchers led by Hiroki Kunimura at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The robotic baby simulator has an interactive screen that works as its face.

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Laser-guided Neato XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner

The pioneer of robotic vacuums, Roomba, has got many clones trying to match its capabilities or claim to be better. Here comes another Roomba clone, the Neato XV-11, which claims to overcome obstacles better in its mission of cleaning floors by having equipped itself with the new weapon – laser.

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