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Give You A Hand: The Darth Vader Robotic Arm

Any Star Wars fan will recognize the sliced off arm of young Anakin Skywalker, and will delight in this very cool gadget known as the Darth Vader arm.
The Darth Vader Robotic Arm is actually a kit that instructs you in how to build a robotic arm and lets you do various stuff with it with [...]

Control Your (Robotic) Universe: The Programmable Gaming Robot

Robotics and games sometimes can go hand in hand, and the Programmable Gaming Robot allows you to produce your own games and pit other robots against you in challenges of skill and thought.
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The six included games are interactive environments composed of pieces that include a base station, energy port, special effects hub, and three [...]

Revolutionary: Robonica looks to change up the robot entertainment sector

Start-up Robonica is focusing on one thing only: finding new ways of designing robotic entertainment and is looking to release a range of new products that should brings robotics into the mainstream as entertainment devices.
Combining electronic gaming, robot stuff and remote control aspects in their initial offering, detailed here from their site:
A smart, fully programmable [...]

The Next Big Thing: The OLLO Kids Robotic Action Kit

The Next Big Thing: The OLLO Kids Robotic Action Kit

Could OLLO be the next LEGO? LEGO has long been considered “old school” due to its lack of motion. Imagination isn’t a pre-requisite for toys these days, so this new motor-driven toy could catch on.
The aforementioned motor is the big draw of this one, and it really depends on your imagination on what you are [...]

Gadget of Many Faces: The 6-in-1 Solar Robot Kit

Gadget of Many Faces: The 6-in-1 Solar Robot Kit

Unlike those endless stream of Transformers gadgets and USB drives currently flooding the marketplace, this robot is eco-friendly and actually a transforming robot that is worthy of the label.
It can change into 6 different robots, in fact, which should give you plenty of diversion. And it’s even solar powered, which is even more high-tech and [...]

The future today: The Robotic Arm Kit

The future today: The Robotic Arm Kit

You’ve read those sci-fi novels that grandly predict robots will run the future, do the dishes for us, and grab our mail. They’ll pilot fabulous space ships and help us in our everyday lives. Well, that may or may not happen, but ThinkGeek believe they are selling a slice of the future today: The Robotic [...]