The battle of robot standards
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Legs or wheels? Entertaining or functional? The robot world has a lot of questions to resolve.
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GENEVA - The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a new survey that credits dropping prices.
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The future of robotics may involve teams of small, cooperating droids.
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IRobot readies a prototype remote-controlled robot designed to help in military or police efforts.
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Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home.
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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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Plans for new gutter-cleaning robot from iRobot surfaces on FCC Web site documents.
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The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a new UN survey, which credits dropping prices for the robot boom.
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The Pentagon predicts that robots will be a major fighting force in the American military in less than a decade.
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GENEVA - The use of robotic domestic help will surge sevenfold by 2007, a new United Nations survey suggests. The UN&#39;s annual World Robotics Survey was issued by the Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics.
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An advanced robotic arm beats a host of other machines to win a Japanese government competition
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As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it.
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A military project aimed at building smarter robots has given researchers the wheels they need to make their automatons go.
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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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Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.
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GENEVA - Because of falling prices, the use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, a new survey says.