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Jul. 25 - China's friendly robots, the iPhone Apps craze, and special special effects.

Coming soon to theaters: A robot destined for the junk pile after being replaced by a more current model gains new life and a new purpose - going into potentially contaminated areas so Soldiers don't need to ...

Following in the pawprints of the Sony Aibo, released in June 1999, the Ugobe Pleo dinosaur pet robot is the most recent incarnation of a learning and evolving personal robotic toy.

Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us.

FOXBusiness Microsoft didn't have its sights set on the robotics industry when the company was founded, but recent developments in the industry made the software giant a natural fit.

Submitted by News Account on 23 July 2008 - 4:00am. Technology SENSOPAC, an EU-funded project whose goal is to create a robotic arm, hand and brain with human-like physical and cognitive capabilities, is ...

Where are all the Robots? Lauren Covello FOXBusiness If Hollywood has taught us anything over the years, it's to believe in a future of walking, talking robots.

Pic courtesy BBC News . July 23, 2008 Scientists in the US have developed robots that are capable of climbing walls.

However, the cause of error may be ambiguous: is it because we misestimated properties of the tool or of our own arm? We considered a well-studied adaptation task in which people made goal-directed reaching ...

It's something that science fiction geeks and scientists alike have been dreaming of for decades - a robot that thinks like a human being.

Papers delivered at three conferences in the US and Europe this summer report on new research at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering studying interactions of children with Autism ...

Washington, July 22 : Researchers at Imperial College London have discovered that two key sets of nerve cells in a fly's brain enable it's gaze to stay stable during complex aerial manoeuvres, and to respond ...

SUZHOU, CHINA : Thailand made it three-in-a-row at the World RoboCup 2008 competition in China yesterday when its Chulalongkorn University team swept aside the challenge of its three rivals in the finals.

Oscar Wilde once lamented the difficulties of "the love that dare not speak its name". Little did he know that a century later it would be more of a concern trying to find a love that would, even for the barest ...

Daft Punk, "Electroma" French electronica duo Daft Punk - Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo - have become known as much for their visual presentation, in both their innovative videos and stage ...

ROBOTS already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.

Eshan Bajwa, 3, builds a small rocket as the NASA Lunar Science Institute celebrates the 39th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on July 20, 2008.

Conservatives love to complain about Hollywood liberalism, but most of the political films that shuffle through the cineplexes are standard-issue leftie hackwork that neither persuade nor succeed.

LONDON: A robot, almost the size of a briefcase, has been introduced by the United Kingdom border agency to nab illegal immigrants trying to cross into the country.

The latest episode of the Robots podcast features interviews with two experts in self-reconfiguring and modular robotics.