Robots News

Imagine that the chair you're sitting on became a sofa on demand as the day moved from light to dark.

BUFFALO, N.Y. Will every household soon have a 3-D printer? How does origami lead to safer airbags and other innovations? Will robots do more than vacuum your home? Technological advancements plus investment is pushing robots from niche industries into everyday life.

The closest to that I've seen is a camera swallowed to view the lower GI tract. I think something the size of a grain of rice moving through the body to remove tumors is a big leap from a robotic arm that can cauterize.

A robot designed to work alongside humans in factories is finding a range of unusual alternative applications from treating patients to farming in space A PAIR of chunky robot arms connected to a computer brain rides a motorised wheelchair over to a jar of peanut butter.

Zeynep Tufekci's scathing response to the establishment consensus that tech will create new jobs to replace the ones we've automated away makes a lot of good points.

Researchers have developed a device that allows multiple robotic platforms to follow the path of certain odors.

HERB is a robot butler featured on the awesome new show Going Deep With David Rees .

Boeing and Kuka, a German robot builder, have been developing a new approach to robot use in an Anacortes facility.

Members of the Rhoban project's team check functions of a humanoid robot at the LaBRI workshop in Talence, France.

Well, Weird Al did it. He crushed Jason Mraz and landed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album charts.

Hey, aren't robots great? Just watch any science fiction movie or TV show, or, better yet, read a book, and you will find robots can do just about anything.

The girl's mother admitted to neglecting her daughter when she left her home alone while she visited clients and ran errands Two years ago the full-back was riding the crest of a wave on the club's pre-season tour of America under new boss Brendan Rodgers Baxter Research Robot who Glyndwr University's computing department hope will be ... (more)

AND HOPEFULLY CAN GET A CAUSE ON THAT HOUSE FIRE AND EXPLOSION. MEANWHILE, KIDS THESE DAYS ARE JUST A LOT MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED THAN WE WERE AT THAT AGE.

It was a storm that would terrify the bravest of mariners, but a California robot swam through it without blinking.

American citizens vying for national security clearances in the future can expect a barrage of questions, but not from humans.

Any eclipse is worth seeing. A total eclipse where the moon completely blots out the sun, where day turns to night, where solar flares ring the moon's shadow like a crown of flame that's the eclipse everybody wants to see, the alpha eclipse that eclipses all the other eclipses.

The 300-pound humanoid robot working on the International Space Station is in the midst of getting a series of upgrades, including new processors and software, in preparation of having a pair of legs attached to it.

Instructor Paige Dieleman, left, shows students Matthew Collett, son of Brandon and Marti Collett, and Myles Jones, son of Emily and Greg Jones, a modification on a robot being built during the 4-H Clover University Robotics Camp this week.

Siraj Khan, 13, of Glenn Dale and Alexis Manful, 14, of Bowie program their robot Monday during a robotics summer camp at the Howard B. Owens Science Center in Lanham.

Inspired by science fiction, three bowling ball-size free-flying Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites have been flying inside the International Space Station since 2006.