Robots News

GUIAN, China-Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. plans to make its own industrial robots it hopes will have the intelligence to handle assembly work like its skilled workforce, its chairman said.

Rosie the Riveter is now an assistance robot, thanks to Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers.

A global hardware hackathon is asking entrants to "Build the Future," without placing restraints on what that means apart from a short list of qualifying rules.

According to my buddy and fellow author, the marketing cyborgs are coming. Some are already here.

Robots are coming, and they will eventually take many of our jobs. Before you break out the torches and pitchforks, though, think about how your skills can be applied to work that machines will never be able to do.

Earlier this week, one of my business-beat colleagues got assigned to recap the quarterly earnings of Alcoa, the giant metals company, for the Associated Press.

I'm the baby, gotta love me: A Tyrannosaurus Rex and her baby share a tender moment while the show's protagonist looks on.

NASA plans to send Google smartphones with state of the art 3D sensing technology into orbit to use them as eyes and brains for its newest sci-fi inspired machinery.

Weapons systems are getting smarter, and people are getting nervous. In May, Human Rights Watch called for the outlawing of autonomous military machines with lethal capabilities.

Recently, I visited the China International Battery Fair in Shenzhen. This is perhaps the largest battery show in the world, with over 980 exhibitors covering three-quarter of a million square feet.

This sounds like something straight out of "Battle Star Galactica," but I assure you this is actual technology the Marine Corps are testing.

Forbes Media COO Mike Federle announces at Monterey Plaza Hotel his company's plan to host a summit in Salinas next summer on technology use in agriculture.

A year ago, physicist Daniel Goldman sent me a video of a skeletal creature pushing its way through sand.

What clues might brain metrics hold about the skill levels of surgeons who perform robot-assisted surgeries? Looking for better ways to assess the proficiency of surgeons performing these complex procedures, researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo determined whether cognitive assessment can effectively measure the ... (more)

The 21st annual Learning Fair, which encourages kids of all ages to discover technology, industry and the arts, runs from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday July 11, at the Jackson Area Career Center, 6800 Browns Lake Road.

But Syfy's "Sharknado 2" trailer, this one about a shark storm hitting Manhattan, just went up and features chain saws buzzing, the Statue of Liberty's severed head whizzing, Tara Reid kvetching and Robert Klein barking "This is the Big Apple! Something bites us; we bite back!" In a recent interview with CNBC, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and ... (more)

Bright purple lights pulsed through an empty hospital room as UPMC Passavant's new robot, Violet, completed its work.

This week--more than three dozen students in southern West Virginia are exploring the fields of science, technology, and art.

Studies from other hospitals indicate the robots can decrease contamination in hospital rooms by 95 percent and decrease hospital-associated infections by more than 50 percent.

A quick glance at the weekly news and feature stories from the past couple of weeks has shown, among other things, a starfish shaped robot that cleans your rugs, curtains and floors; a newly-released X-Men movie featuring the giant assassin antagonists who happen to be robots; and a robot who is hitchhiking across Canada.