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 ...

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 first foreign engagements, “Robots” has a problem: Fox’s toon plays much younger than “Ice Age” and it lacks the charm of talking animal/fish sagas like the “Shrek” pics and “Shark Tale ...

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 ...

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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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...