Robots News

Tape libraries, like this one at Google, provide an example of the use of robotics to manage data centers.

Robots are everywhere. From helping us find cat videos on the Internet to assembling other robots , they've become almost as ubiquitous in real life as they have been in pop culture for years.

A Kinston couple began a robotics class in March at Holloway Center, serving nearly 20 children as young as 8-years-old. As Kinston Robotics is in the beginning stage, there is only a pair of robots to work with.

Engineers at German-based EDAG needed a rotating ring table for small-lot production of cars.

What might a robot-controlled 'lights-out' data center look like? The racks will be taller, as robotics systems can reach higher to manage servers.

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission.

This virtual robot evolved to move as quickly as possible using four types of tissue: soft support tissue, bone and two types of muscle.

While ants can spoil a picnic, and fire ants are despised for their painful bites, the tiny creatures are masters at tunneling, and this expertise could be put to good use.

If you've been dreaming of strapping on your own "Iron Man" armor, you might have to wait a while longer.

The Ministry of Defense in Brazil is sending 25,000 soldiers to patrol its borders in an unprecedented military operation to shore up security at next month's Confederations Cup.

Wells Fargo's Walter Price says analysts aren't giving Google enough credit for growth in its mobile and video businesses and says the stock holds more opportunity than rival internet giant Yahoo.

Compared to single-lens eyes, compound eyes offer lower resolution, but significantly larger fields of view, thin package, and with negligible distortion.

Researchers believe new findings about the curious locomotion of fire ants could give engineers lessons for building automated search-and-rescue robots designed to hunt for human victims trapped underground.

The following was sent by the Ridgewood Public Schools. The RHS Robotics Team competed in the annual Botball Competition on May 11 at Rahway High School.

This is the video shown to participants in a study conducted by the University of Duisburg-Essen to determine if humans feel empathy towards tortured robots .

On the rise at New York's downtown film festival this year: post-Hurricane Sandy transmedia, robot documentarists, Vine, lolcats, Facebook-chat reconstructions, a crowd-boggled Paul Verhoeven, cross-format histories from the archive, a smearily digitised Charles Lane rediscoverya and three 35mm celluloid blasts from the past.

The latest "virtual therapist" -- charged with helping diagnose depression -- comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California .

The Arduino Robot Kit is joined by the Arduino YAon, the group's answer to the flexibility of the Raspberry Pi for electronics enthusiasts.

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.

A humanoid robot can receive an object handed to it by a person with something approaching natural, human-like motion thanks to a new method developed by scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh in a project partially funded by the International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of ... (more)