Robots News

When the robots rise up against us, I'm not sure we're going to put up much of a fight.

When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But I do believe in the idea of the self-driving electric taxi as the best answer for our future urban transportation.

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

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 d ©j 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.

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

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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Robots are simply more efficient than humans at certain tasks. They already excel at building cars, exploring distant planets and hunting for explosives, but it turns out that robots might also evolve much faster than their flesh-and-blood counterparts.

Most land-dwelling animals with skeletons have the ability to jump. It is of particular importance to survival, as running primarily consists of a long series of jumps.

I was never a Daft Punk fan until Random Access Memories , and it had to do with a shallow perception of the band as gimmick musicians: robot masks, huge waiting periods between albums , a unified aesthetic that didn't ring genuine, but as carefully branded as a corporate logo.