Shortly after the Amazon/iRobot news was announced on Friday morning, a colleague asked me if I was surprised. The short answer is yes and no. Yes, in the sense that the news dropped suddenly on what
Two things are for certain: 1) There continues to be a lot of excitement around warehouse robotics and 2) Geek+ is extremely good at raising money based on that fact. The Beijing-based warehouse robot
By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots that populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others. In particular, Amazon was very much a pioneer of the technology. B
Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 mill
Chinese robots will soon be seen roaming a number of warehouse floors across North America. Geek+, a well-funded Chinese robotics company that specializes in logistics automation for factories, wareho
Another overly niche streaming service is closing up shop. On Friday, Alpha – a geek-friendly streaming service that focused on TV, pop-culture, sci-fi, comics, video games and more – anno
One of the most immediate — and already live — applications for robotics and artificial intelligence in general has been in using unmanned robots in warehouses and other environments, wher
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/bam.jpg" />Ain't nothin' wrong with flaunting it. Your geekiness, I mean. What did <em>you </em>think I was talking about?
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/8-bit-vino.jpg" />Geeks generally aren't associated with drinking wine; soda, beer, sometimes even mead, but rarely do you connect wine d
I’m not so sure the average non-geek girl would love necklaces and earrings made of resistors, fuses, and floppy disk parts but there’s no harm in trying. Besides, I suspect real geek girl
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/AUTOIMAGES_DK63869lg.jpg" />Now you can get the Death Star plans without having to depending on those Bothan spies. Some enterprising pub
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It seems the iPhone really tickles the fancy of some Japanese gadget freaks. Following the <a href="http://www.cru
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<i><a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/geek-weekend/">Geek Weekend</a> is a c
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/guy.jpg" />An act of unparalleled nerddom. This talented fellow performs the gamer anthem "Still Alive" with the piano part on his keyboa
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/620resize.jpg" />If you've ever wondered exactly what UHF, VHF, UV, LFO, gamma rays, cosmic rays and so on are and what exactly it is the
Say you had to bid on an original lightsaber that Mark Hamill wielded in both Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Go ahead, pick a number. $1000? $5000? $50000? How about a quarter of a
My buddy Owen wrote up his short list of geek gifts for 2008. His list includes some pretty interesting items. I particularly liked this one: Algin and Calcic Algin and Calic are two additive ingred
Well well, a happy ending! Or possibly only the grisly beginning, depending on what happens when they fire that thing up again. The crowbar, sent from Reddit and Destructoid, has been given directly t
Oh man, this is deeply nerdy. This fellow Phill’s girlfriend was playing Chrono Trigger using an SNES emulator, and he hacked the ROM she was using, adding an entire new area (“Koma Kulsha
Deeply geeky. As if the nerdy humor and nerdier meta-humor of XKCD weren’t enough, this enterprising coder (apparently with a little too much time on his hands) created an interactive simulation
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