Robots News

You might think that this is just another attempt to squeeze a video of a group of dancing Nao robots into the pages of an otherwise completely serious magazine.

Norbert Wiener, who once taught philosophy at Harvard, was one of the first visionaries to ponder and warn of the impact of 'thinking' machines on future societies.

Christopher Taylor won $20,000 last month from Georgia Tech's Inventure Prize competition to turn his designs for toys that wiggle around and roll away from Fido on their own accord into a Chris Taylor, a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, just won $20,000 in the school's invention competition to develope his line of robotic dog toys, called ... (more)

Sit in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon Interactive Experience, perhaps in a front seat usually reserved for Han Solo or Chewbacca, and you won't be thrown into a deep space dogfight with Imperial TIE fighters.

The modified 'batwing' design has tools to remotely defeat improvised explosive devices, including a hook for grabbing or cutting command wire, a rake for breaking up soil, and a spade for moving and digging up items.

While the Roomba 650, left, can't vacuum as well as a human it'll save you time on a weekly basis.

Robotics students from Lockport's Emmet Belknap Intermediate School traveled to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center on Thursday for a visit with SAL the Surgical Robot.

Pity the Gowanus Canal. A forgotten relic of Brooklyn's industrial past, the garbage-choked waterway is now home to a putrid stew of toxic waste.

As a child approaches "Romo," a small robot that combines a body on wheels with an iPhone for brains, the eyes of an animated face follow the child's face, a smile turning to an expression of alarm when the child gets "too close," and then back to a smile.

When "Man of Steel" premieres next month, a Kansas City-area robotics engineer may experience a sense of dA©jA vu.

California-based company Barobo is all about robots . Their newest invention, Linkbot , is a modular robotic platform that lets you build and customize your own robot, block by block, like LEGOs .

Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home.

It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie - but campaigners say the threat is real and the robots already exist.

If you haven't stopped listening to Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories since its release, consider switching it up a bit.

We've all experienced it you've just arrived home and the last landline phone in your house is ringing.

Digital technologies such as 3D modeling software and 3D printers have grown cheap and accessible enough for ordinary people to make prototypes of objects that could, until recently, only be made by people who owned factories.

In his book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology , futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that computers will be as smart as humans by 2029, and that by 2045, "computers will be billions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence," Kurzweil wrote in an email to LiveScience .

What if you could have your smartphone greet customers while they're shopping in your store or have a tablet work as a babysitter? That's the idea behind R.bots Synergy SWAN, a telepresence robot with that works with any Android or iOS device.

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