Herbie the Mousebot and Photopopper 5.0 ...

Solarbotics just attended the MakeFashion Gala here in Calgary. It was a glowing show of glowing lights and wearable technology. Check out the photos in our Flickr stream. Photo courtesy George Dimitrov Photography Among all the other wonderful things we've seen using our string LEDs before, there was nothing quite as intense as these outfits. […]

The University of of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been running a BEAM-style mechatronics program (GE100) for the last few years. The purpose of the class is to build a self-powered device that can propel itself over both smooth and rough terrain, using a pair of servos and a BEAM-style servo-controller circuit (similar in function to […]

Alriiiiight. We've teased at it off and on for the past little while, but it's official - Solarbotics now carries sensors! Right now we've just added a big fist-full of distance / proximity sensors (17 items in total!), and a couple accessories. Stay tuned - we'll be adding more to these categories as well as […]

A quick message from Mark W. Tilden...: Just a heads up that following a lecture by yours truly ("World Domination through Robot Toy Marketing"), 200 BIObugs will be released for mass behavioral experiments on Sunday, October 13 at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, CA. Could be a record for the largest array of cooperating autonomous robots […]