Robots News

Watch any old sci-fi movie, and the future is invariably depicted as a place full of helpful, hard-working robots, busying themselves with the household chores, while the humans sit around mixing cocktails and enjoying themselves.

See, the government isn't spying on us. They're bringing us refreshing beers. The camera? Umm, an easier way to take selfies? Terminator , Robocop and Transformers : what do these movies all have in common? They don't tell us how robots will bring us beer, and that's just damn rude.

NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it.

Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best brains - and a few robots - in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies.

A local manufacturer has snatched up an Austin, Texas company. Miamisburg-based Motoman Robotics has acquired Agile Planet Inc., a developer of intelligent robotics software and hardware products engineered to improve the efficiency and functionality of industrial robots.

The company does robotic testing on vehicles for durability at the Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo, according to a recent story from MLive.

A new study finds that labor's share of the world's income is plunging, and suggests the technology boom is to blame.

Artist's rendering by Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne released on June 17, 2013 of the "cheetah-cub robot."

School officials say the team designed a robot that they operated with a remote control to test its durability and precision on a terrain that mimicked another planet's surface.

As airplane makers gathered outside Paris to show off their newest high-tech jetliners on Monday, a less-heralded technology story was unfolding back home on the factory floors of the world's leading aerospace firms.

Swiss scientists have created a cat-like robot with the stability and agility to one day be used in search-and-rescue missions.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the idea of a citizen's income : the state replacing the vast majority of the benefit system with one cash payment made to everyone, regardless of employment or income.

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's 4-legged 'cheetah-cub robot' has the same advantages as its model: It is small, light and fast Even though it doesn't have a head, you can still tell what kind of animal it is: the robot is definitely modeled upon a cat.

A Japanese scientist has developed a body-double robot which resembles him closely, with tiny human-like movements and blinking eyes.

Kaori-chan, a female robot, can smell your breath and responds based on a four point scale Have you got a case of dog breath? How about smelly feet? Friends and family may not tell you, but a couple of new robots will.

Ford announced its durability testing methods will now employ the help of robotic steering technology.

While other companies are working to develop fully autonomous vehicles, Ford has been working on a slightly different problem.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are using snakes as a model for a series of robots that will having capabilities ranging from search and rescue operations to medical applications.

In testing the durability of its upcoming fullsize Transit vans , Ford has begun using autonomous robotic technology to pilot vehicles through the punishing courses of its Michigan Proving Grounds test facility.

Medical professionals from all over the region came to a robotics symposium Saturday at the Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center, where experts talked about the pros and cons of robotic surgery.