Robots going in harm's way
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The war in Iraq has proven the lethal effectiveness of roadside bombs. But the war has also proven the value of a new tool to deal with the bombs: small, agile robots that disarm or detonate the bombs at the direction of soldiers who operate the robots from a safe distance.
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Several research teams are developing robots made of smart building blocks that can morph into different forms to perform a broad variety of tasks. The bots are to be used in space missions and in search-and-rescue efforts. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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A new breed of snake arm robots has been developed by researchers that allow them to access hard-to-reach areas.
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A security vendor is warning of a malware in the form of a flirtatious robot.
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Devices that measure helmet impacts, play-calling software, even swallowable temperature sensors are becoming realities.
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Video gamers relish  violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims  themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a  wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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CALGARY - Canada&#39;s heart surgeons got a peek on Monday at robots that could make for less bloody operations and faster recoveries in the future.
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ConnectR communications robot lets you see who's talking and follow them around the room.
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Extraordinary advances in unmanned aerial vehicles signify progress in the field of robotics.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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BURLINGTON - Forget R2D2. The next frontier in robotics is a miniature tank that borrows some of the technology behind military bomb-defusing robots - to eject rotting foliage from your gutters.
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Forget food and bullets, we need batteries, damn it! DSEi Here at the DSEi killware show there's a constant parade of robots: crawling, flying, swimming or just sitting still and killing people who walk past. It's relatively difficult for a jaded deathmech hack to muster up much interest... sometimes.â¦
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Whether mopping up a battlefield or living room floor, the robot maker is working on vehicle to get the job done.
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In the continuing quest to see if humans can outpace their electronic creations, the humans have lost another, perhaps decisive, round.
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It's time for radical robomediation. Let's hand the service industry to automatons rather than transforming humans into reluctant machines. Commentary by Momus.
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Swarm robots, car robots, team robots -- you name it, you can find it at the RoboNexus convention. Daniel Terdiman reports from Santa Clara, California.