Robots News

Next week, 17 teams will take their multi-limbed, capable-looking robots through eight realistic disaster-response tasks that will make up the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge Trials Dec. 21-22 at Florida's Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Even though NASA's Johnson Space Center's impressive build for the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge is one of many entries, it has to be one of the coolest.

RobotsLAB's Box kit includes four robots and a tablet loaded with a Common Core-specific curriculum.

Even before the most recent wave of scrutiny, Pegatron has been making changes. Chief Financial Officer Charles Lin said Pegatron has built four new dormitories in Shanghai this year to ease crowding, with the number of workers in a dorm room dropping to 8-10 from 10-12.

TAKE bull sperm, mix in some nanotubes, and what do you get? Why the very first spermbot, of course.

UPHILL'S A BREEZE: Skiers and snowboarders like to slide down mountains, and often aren't excited by the need to use a chairlift or rope tow to be hauled up again.

Psychologists from the University of Exeter are leading a major project looking at how robots can enable people to interact in public spaces - without actually being there.

Lately, robots have been taking over all kinds of jobs that humans used to do on the farm - from thinning lettuce to harvesting spinach .

All I want for Christmas is a triple-nipple baby bottle, some extinct goat DNA, and a Mars survival kit.

NASA has unveiled Valkyrie, an advanced humanoid "superhero" robot that appears female and may one day be used to explore Mars.

White Plains Hospital welcomed two new members to its staff on Tuesday - but you won't see them around the water-cooler.

Deutsche Post, a German express delivery company, is currently testing an aerial drone which, in the near future, could be used to deliver medicine and supplies to remote settlements and relief areas.

A human-sized robot named CHIMP has been created by Carnegie Mellon's University's National Robotics Engineering Center in Lawrenceville, and it's getting ready for a big challenge.

Most flying robot models currently base their design on insect-like wing motions, like those of bees, hummingbirds and moths.

Can robots make the world of education better? Can universes benefit from robots? Can autistic children improve through a robot companion? Can children start enjoying maths when taught by a robot pal? Bruno Maisonnier thinks that world is here now.

Phoenix will be reborn - this time as a reality TV star. Mars One, a Dutch organisation based around the wacky idea of putting a human colony on the Red Planet and turning it into a TV show , says it will launch a copy of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander in 2018.

In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, protesters rally for better wages at a Wendy's in Detroit.

Need a hand lifting something? A robotic device invented by University of Pennsylvania engineering students can help its wearer carry an additional 40 pounds.

In this Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 photo, Nick McGill wears the Titan Arm as he poses at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Youngsters have enjoyed a day of robots, giant bubbles, microscopes, 'minibeasts', musical instruments, animal skulls, skeletons and skins as part the Children's University Graduation Day The kids from across Cornwall took part in hands-on activities thanks to the organisations taking part, including Geevor Tin Mine, Newquay Zoo, Music Cornwall, ... (more)