Let Robots Sweat the Boring Stuff
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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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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 are working on autonomous robots that eat to produce energy. The problem right now is that batteries are much better. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Why dopes still beat boffins The current generation of "consumer robots" is driven mostly by robot-love: people enjoy things which move around on their own, especially if they can build or tinker with the gadgets themselves.Â Â  That much became clear at a recent symposium on Robots, which I described here last month. The consumer robot business today is manned by avid tinkerers because there is neither a technology for autonomous gadgets, nor a business model to support them even if they did exist.â¦
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Sci-fi versions of baby blocker in a can could turn out to be loads of fun. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Match your gadgets with the right software to really feel the burn. By Mathew Honan from Wired magazine.
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Well, not the world maybe, but possibly your lawns and kitchens. The use of robots -- especially as domestic help -- is expected to increase sevenfold by 2007, according to the United Nations.
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Fed up groveling before your PC? You should be. Imagine an alternate universe where your TV forced you through the same daily humiliations.
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&quot;Transformers&quot; is a wet  dream for fanboys, with vehicles that whiz and whir into alien  robots, spectacular sci-fi stunt chases, glistening military  hardware, overheated computer software and brainy, hot girls  who love Popular Mechanics.
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Blog: Art installation puts autonomous robots behind bars for people to observe.
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Looking for glamour and excitement? Try low pay, long hours and grinding, mind-numbing monotony.
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Movie tie-in games tend to suck. Hope springs eternal, though, and the allure of giant transforming robots is keeping me at least a little bit hopeful for the Transformers games.
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The robot army is coming, and it's well armed. Wired tours the military robotics labs of the Space and Naval Warfare System Center, which is part junkyard, part high-tech weapons laboratory.
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Israel rolls out a tiny, Uzi-toting robot. But what happens when the armed equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death occurs? In Danger Room. In Danger Room.
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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iRobot and WowWee introduce new robots at the Consumer Electronics Show. IRobotâs cleans gutters and WowWeeâs is a night watchman.
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A little less conversation and a little more action