Installations of new robots set a record and peaked in 2005, with 126,700 new units, 30 percent more than were installed in 2004, and nearly 13 percent more than the 110,600 industrial robots that are ...

Researchers at Cornell, MIT and Delft University in the Netherlands recently introduced the three newest humanoid robots to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Each robot has the ...

Watching the original “Star Wars” movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2. After enduring plenty of lean years chasing ...

Let the battle of the machines begin again. Forty self-navigating robots were chosen as semifinalists Monday for spots in the Oct. 8 sequel to last year’s first-ever robot race across the Mojave ...

Fox is waiting more than six months — forever in DVD land nowadays — to release its $126 million-grossing toon “Robots,” but the Sept. 20 debut will mark the studio’s first simultaneous bow for the ...

Judging by its roll-outs in 41 markets, “Robots” may turn out to be one of the few CGI animated pics of recent years to gross less internationally than at home. The spanner in the works for the ‘bots, ...

Imagine if your car’s park distance control, radar cruise control, night vision and that little backup camera (that shows the trash cans you’re about to run over) all conspired with your navigation ...

Meet SORA, the latest and greatest secretarial robot to come out of Japan. She has an integrated camera, microphone, speaker and business card scanner. She can take pictures of people and even act as ...

The newest CG-animated movie on the market right now has the same old theme with a different background. The protagonist is a son who goes out into the world to try and prove his self worth to his ...

*Will RFID-equipped robots rule the world? No way. But RFID tags might make a kind of handy Braille for mobile machines that are notoriously bad at vision.... http ...

Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge ...

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