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Robotics

WATCH: Yes, This Moth Is 'Driving'

The Huffington Post | Macrina Cooper-White | Posted 05.11.2013 | Science

Silk moths can't fly, so usually the guys have to meet ladies the old fashioned way: by crawling. But at one Tokyo University lab male moths get t...

Ready To Meet Your Robot Overlords?

Posted 05.09.2013 | Science

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/07/2013 03:42 PM EDT on LiveScience Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea...

WATCH: Whack From Baseball Bat Can't Hurt New Robotic Hand

Posted 05.03.2013 | Science

Let's give DARPA a hand for helping create a new robotic grasper. The three-fingered hand might look like the claw from an old-fashioned arcade game b...

WATCH: Robotic Insect Flies Like The Real Thing

natureheader | Posted 05.03.2013 | Science

By Ron Cohen A robot as small as a housefly has managed the delicate task of flying and hovering the way the actual insects do. ā€œThis is a major e...

Nuclear Bombs and Landmines, Say Hello to Robots

Illah Nourbakhsh | Posted 04.25.2013 | World
Illah Nourbakhsh

Robotics joins mines and nuclear fission as a third, new technology with profound moral implications for war-fighting and for downstream civilian harm.

Bianca Bosker

WATCH: Will We Bond With Bots?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 04.19.2013 | Science

We often think of robots as merely assembly-line tools meant for physical labor. But they're capable of much more than that: like companionship, and e...

WATCH: Human-Robot Interaction, Explained

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.19.2013 | Science

If a squat, cardboard-framed robot with a high-pitched voice started asking you questions, would you answer it? Would you share your troubles? Unload ...

POLL: Would Sex With A Robot Be Cheating?

Posted 04.10.2013 | Science

A provocative new poll shows that Americans have little trouble imagining a future full of personal service robots -- at least when it comes to robots...

WATCH: Creepy Humanoid Robot Tests Chemical Gear

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 04.08.2013 | Science

PETMAN has some scary new duds. In a just-released video, the eerily human-like military robot PETMAN rocks chemical protection clothing and a gas mas...

Meet Nao, One High School's New Robot Teacher

Posted 04.01.2013 | Technology

The Career and Technical Education Academy in Hutchinson, Kan., has hired a new teacher who may fit in perfectly at an institution with such a technol...

Robot Futures: A New Book on the Adolescence of Robotics

Illah Nourbakhsh | Posted 03.27.2013 | Science
Illah Nourbakhsh

Rarely does a field at the theoretical end stand up, gather its belongings and move wholesale across the field, all the way across the boundary, until it has reached the practically opposite extreme. But soon, robotics will do just this.

The Power of the Demo

Michael Dezube | Posted 05.15.2013 | Science
Michael Dezube

Never discount the importance of a great demo. Great demos can establish stakeholder buy-in, secure more resources, and ensure the longevity and success of a project; therefore it is critical to deliver a great and impactful one.

The U.S. Government's Horrifying Four-Legged Robot Can Now Throw CINDER BLOCKS

Jason Gilbert | Posted 05.01.2013 | Technology
Jason Gilbert

In news that foreshadows the end of our country and probably civilization as we know it, BigDog -- an enormous, horrifying four-legged robot that is f...

10 picks From Toy Fair That Parents Will Enjoy (Sharing with their Kids)

Rocco Staino | Posted 04.27.2013 | Parents
Rocco Staino

The 110th Annual Toy Fair was recently held in New York City. It was filled with many familiar toys from my childhood as well as a host of innovative items that one could not have imagined 10 or 20 years ago.

In The Future, Machines May Have All The Jobs

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 03.27.2013 | Technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — Martin Ford saw it everywhere, even in his own business. Smarter machines and better software were helping companie...

I (Want) Robot

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 03.19.2013 | Technology
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.

The new meme is that the robots are coming, and while they are not the Arnold Schwarzenegger "life terminator," they are the jobs terminator.

Sustainable Moon Travel and the Google Lunar X PRIZE

XPRIZE | Posted 03.16.2013 | Technology
XPRIZE

By Nathan Wong Part five of a five-part series about going back to the Moon, by Google Lunar X PRIZE technical consultant Nathan Wong. Over the past ...

The Robot Revolution

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 03.16.2013 | Business
Jerry Jasinowski

The fact is, manufacturing in the U.S. has been moving away from labor intensive work processes for many years. Advancing robot technology will heighten demand for highly skilled labor.

Advances in Robotics

XPRIZE | Posted 02.16.2013 | Technology
XPRIZE

By Nathan Wong Part four of a five-part series about going back to the Moon, by Google Lunar X PRIZE technical consultant Nathan Wong. In the past th...

New Robotic Limb Called 'Remarkable Achievement'

Reuters | Posted 02.16.2013 | Science

By Chris Wickham LONDON (Reuters) - A paralyzed woman has been able to feed herself chocolate and move everyday items using a robotic a...

WATCH: Lonely Astronauts To Get New Friend

Posted 12.12.2012 | Science

When Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata arrives in space in 2013 to take command of the International Space Station, he'll have a little robotic helper...

Where's My Robot?

Techonomy | Posted 01.13.2013 | Technology
Techonomy

Who's your biggest competition for that new job? Turns out, it could be a robot named Baxter.

WATCH: Extreme DARPA Robot Battles Obstacle Course

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 01.09.2013 | Science

Here's a scenario: you're trapped under rubble in the middle of a storm, and a large Transformer-esque robot comes shakily charging toward you to help...

Elderly Say Bring On The Robots -- Just Not As Friends

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.26.2012 | Technology

Older adults are keen on having robot personal assistants help them with laundry and housekeeping, but they draw the line at having a robot help them ...

Jason Gilbert

How To Throw A Party Staffed Entirely By Robots

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 10.05.2012 | Technology

If you're planning a big party in the near future -- a wedding reception, perhaps, or a Bar Mitzvah, or an inauguration gala -- you're probably spendi...