Robots News

As far as hitchhikers go, this one looks harmless enough. He or she -- it's hard to tell -- is short and friendly, if a little fashion-challenged.

The mobile robot known as "Double" is an iPad mounted on a machine similar to a Segway, which can be controlled remotely and make its operator feel as if they are in the room.

Don't program robots -- train them. That's the stated goal of Brain Corporation, whose operating system is designed to allow robots to learn how to dump trash or open doors via hands-on training, not programming.

A group of Grand Rapids Public Schools students proudly watched their math and science skills come to life as their underwater robots sauntered at the bottom of a community pool earlier this week.

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You can count on Japan to perpetually push the idea of robot pets -- and some of us are okay with that .

The agricultural industry and specifically farming will be widely using integrated robotics in the not too distant future, according to Satwant Kaur, Ph.D., the self-proclaimed "First Lady of Emerging Technologies."

From ensuring that cities function as ecosystems to zero-carbon skyscrapers of the future, the evolving disciplines of architecture, design and urban planning would do well to biomimic the processes of nature.

The fair's director of marketing, Steve Stagnaro, tries to add a new attraction to the fair each year.

One of the great challenges for researchers studying the health of freshwater lakes and rivers is seeing under the waves and around the mud and sand that are part of the environment.

The small craft, barely a metre across, works its way up to the 11th floor, examining the faA ade for such damage as chipped or crumbling concrete, defective joints and the like.

People walking amongst burning debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine.

The interior of a driverless car during testing at the headquarters of motor industry research organization MIRA at Nuneaton in the West Midlands, England, Wednesday, July 30, 2014.

Can robots actually know how feelings are like? I suppose if one could boil down feelings to a series of 1s and 0s, then it would be a phenomenal breakthrough, but until then, abstract ideas such as courage and perseverance would be difficult for a robot to "know".

Some Like It Bot is a short film that depicts the clumsy first date of a human and his cyborg crush.

SIGGRAPH 2014, 10-14 August, has released its list of 2014 Emerging Technologies highlights to be featured at this year's conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Engineers have taken a step towards having machines that can operate when damaged by developing a robot that can teach itself to walk, even with a broken leg.

The Wave Glider SV3 from Liquid Robotics. The craft's hybrid propulsion system utilizes solar panels above and wave power below.

Israeli Colonel Tomer was literally tipped off to the tunnel snaking under a Palestinian village when the tank-churned earth gave way under the weight of one of his behemoth bulldozers.

Scientists have created robots that are only nanometres in length, small enough to manoeuvre inside the human body and possibly inside cells.