i-Diots

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Robots Manufacturers

I assembled a draft list of robots manufacturers, quite popular within the robotics community as a reference for what is currently the market demand together with the respective products.

Willow Garage

iRobot

Aldebaran

Mobile Robots

BlueBotics

KUKA
ROBAI
ENERGID
ST ROBOTICS
LYNX MOTION
MOTOMAN ROBOTICS
ABB
Crust Crawler
Kraft Telerobotics
Robotiq

In time, i will try to keep this above list up-to-date and i would certainly appreciate your feedback.

I would distinguish the following prominent categories of robots:

• Rescue Robots.
• Military Robots.
• Home Robots.
• Service Robots.
• Research Robots.
• Entertainment Robots.
• Space robots.

And i will finish this post, with perhaps the most famous robots song (and quite old).