Glu Mobile releases the third app associated with the famed Transformers. And with the launch of the latest move, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Glu Mobile now brings us the Transformers CyberToy. Designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch owners, the Transformers CyberToy is like a virtual action figure where you can customize it such as transforming it from car to robot and vice versa.

“TRANSFORMERS CyberToy is a completely new type of application from Glu, allowing players to transform characters from vehicle to robot by utilizing the touch screen to interact with their favorite TRANSFORMERS in a virtual environment.”

Features:

• Action Figure Mode – choose different poses, play sounds and animations, and deploy their signature weapons
• Challenge Mode – change from robot to vehicle and back as quickly as possible by a series of taps, touches, shakes and tilts
• View Tech Specs – see details of each mighty TRANSFORMERS robot, including OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, MEGATRON and STARSCREAM—application launches with BUMBLEBEE, and other characters will be added via updates over time

The Transformers CyberToy is now available at the Apple app store for only $0.99.

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The Meccano Spykee WiFi Spy Robot is spy robot kit that is about one foot tall. Once assembled, this extraordinary robot can act as your walking, talking spy. It comes with a web cam, wireless VOIP phone, a digital music player for your MP3s, and video surveillance due to Spykee’s motion detector. This guy even returns to the recharging station automatically when the battery is low.

Spykee comes with 210 parts and is compatible with other Meccano sets so it could be customized. You can run the all-inclusive software to have a Wi-Fi enabled robot that can be controlled on a local connection or remotely from the Internet on a MMI or Machine Man Interface. The Meccano Spykee WIFI Spy Robot retails for around $285.00

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So did you watch the video above? You’ll find one more after the break. Question is, do we really need an iPhone Robot? Are we that lazy that we don’t want to move around the hose to get the iPhone? Is the iPhone going to develop into something nastier over time and then go back in time looking for say, Sarah Connor? So many questions left unanswered and so little time…
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If you loved Asimo, then you’ll also love Mahru, a dancing robot developed by Korea. In the picture, you can clearly see a plastic humanoid that waves its arms around while trundling around on two legs. Apparently, it does this to the tune Tell Me by the Korean popular beat combo the Wonder Girls.

Mahru will get its first public outing at the Robot World 2008 show that kicks of in Seoul on Thursday.

Mahru was made by a team at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. Team leader You Bum-jae claimed the droid was designed for manual labour. A robot’s ability to move all of its limbs separately and simultaneously was a major step forward in creating a work robot.

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Having made its debut at this year’s CES, WowWee’s Mr. Personality robot is making its way to availability.

The robot, which features a LCD screen for its face, promises to “display [it’s] personality with animated and synchronized facial features” to surely freak people out. It includes an SD card slot that can be used to add additional capabilities; it also has 64MB of internal memory, a remote control, and more tricks up its sleeve.

If you want all of that, be sure to hand over $300 worth of green before you can have that robot with its evil faces in your home.

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