Gizmo Watch

Japan’s robot maker Vstone in collaboration with the ATR labs has developed the Robovie-PC, a humanoid hobby robot that has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor built in and features about 20 degrees of mechanical maneuverability, courtesy 3 axis...

Vstone has come up with a miniature humanoid hobby kit called Robovie-Nano, using 15 servos "VS-S020" as robots. It’s smallest in its class, only 23cm, almost half the size of its nearest rivals, Kondo’s KHR-3HV and Kyosho Manoi PF01 both...

Japan is facing stiff competition from South Korea in the realm of robotics and also mainstream market for robots is being influenced by South Korean companies. To counter this, four Japanese companies joined together to exchange technology with each...

The latest Robosapien on the block is this 15' version of the Gigantor. Launched by Vstone, the remote controlled space-age robot measures 185x140x380mm and weighs 2.5 kg. The Tetsu-Jin 28, also famous as Ironman 28, is the most popular of the Japanese.