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...
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...
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...
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. “This is a major e...
Robotics joins mines and nuclear fission as a third, new technology with profound moral implications for war-fighting and for downstream civilian harm.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Martin Ford saw it everywhere, even in his own business. Smarter machines and better software were helping companie...
The new meme is that the robots are coming, and while they are not the Arnold Schwarzenegger "life terminator," they are the jobs terminator.
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 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.
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...
By Chris Wickham LONDON (Reuters) - A paralyzed woman has been able to feed herself chocolate and move everyday items using a robotic a...
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...
Who's your biggest competition for that new job? Turns out, it could be a robot named Baxter.
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...
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 ...
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...
