Most children would love to have a robot to do their chores, like cleaning their room. WowWee, makers of all sorts of cool toy robots and other electronics, has granted this wish with the Roboscooper, which is able to pick up things in a child’s room automatically.

The six-wheeled robot is like a cross between Wall-E and the 1980s “favorite” Big Trak. In fact, the product page even bills it as “WowWee’s answer to Wall-E” . Unlike Wall-E, this ‘bot looks like it would have trouble lifting anything weighing more than an empty potato-chip packet. Which brings us to the frustration.

As Roboscooper’s name suggests, he will pick up items detected on the floor in autonomous mode, or when controlled by the included remote. With half a dozen wheels, he is able to travel across most terrain without a hitch, featuring multi-directional mobility. Not only that, he might even crack you up with a collection of funny phrases and sound effects, while sensors integrated in his hands let him detect objects in front, with a choice to pick it up or knock them around. It does have one feature that Wall-E doesn’t. It can talk, offering such trite and annoying phrases as “Let’s get to work!” and “One step closer to a cleaner world.” Ugh.

If you want one, the WowWee Roboscooper will ship at the end of this month, and cost about $70. It will require 6 AAA batteries for operation. Check out new prices and buy it from Amazon.

Bina48 is an interactive robotic head whose appearance and personality are based on those of a real woman, Bina Rothblatt. The bot was wrought by android wizard David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, known for its Einstein android. It contains 30 servomotors covered by rubber skin.

Modeled after a real Bina, this robot head spent hours talking to the real Bina in question so as to learn a wide variety of expressions and gestures. The end result was a robot that can actually speak and act a lot like a human does, complete with strange vocabulary and realistic expressions.

Bina48 isn’t the first android to be based on a real woman, the Actroid and Geminoid projects in Japan are based on real people as well. But Bina48’s aim of recreating someone’s appearance, personality, and memories is provocative.

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Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (http://www.makerbot.com),  building open source robot kits that allow you to do rapid prototyping and 3D Printing at home.

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Robotinho was developed at the University of Bonn, and riding on the Roomba QuadDrive by the German Museum in Bonn, where he leads visitors on which it can enter even a bit.

The curious robotic creation pictured below is called the Roomba QuadDrive, and hails from the University of Bonn’s Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab. The Roomba QuadDrive is an omnidirectional mobile robot base of the powered caster variety with one obvious characteristic: it uses four IRobot Roomba 530s as the drive motors, each paired with a Robotis Dynamixel RX-64 servo for steering.

A video of the surfing action can be seen in the video below,

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Le Petit Prince Robot may be the one of its kind, it is a extremely cute, mobile, plant-loving greenhouse robot that take care of the plants and support his fast vegetation. A Tube of Glass in the head of the robot is designed to store the plant. This Robot learn the optimal growing condition of the plant it collects and inform the place or terrain to ravage and continuously analyze the growth of the plant. One think is sure that Le Petit Prince Robot will be the prince of the future vegetation.

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Electrolux Design Lab 2009 Finalist Le Petit Prince