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Robotic surgery has only been around since the early 2000s, but in certain surgical fields it's already overtaken traditional open surgery. And now it's poised to change the nature of surgery forever. In the past, surgeons had to make large incisions in ...

This is part 3 of CNNMoney's series looking inside Microsoft's research lab. When your boss is taking a holiday on some tropical island, it's usually cause for celebration. Soon, though, your supervisor could be in the office and on vacation at ...

REDMOND, Wash. (CNNMoney) -- This is part 3 of CNNMoney's series looking inside Microsoft's research lab. When your boss is taking a holiday on some tropical island, it's usually cause for celebration. Soon, though, your supervisor could be in ...

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER: Landing a jet plane on an aircraft carrier is one of the hardest and most dangerous things a human being can do, with pilots' stress levels spiking higher than in combat. Now the Navy is trying to teach a robot ...

The 2012 study has 263 pages, 75 tables and figures. Worldwide surgical robot markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the next generation systems provide a way to improve traditional open surgery. The automated process revolution in ...

Japan is the land of robots, right? But not just inoffensive little welding bots that make Toyota minivans and Honda Civics. Instead, Suidobashi Heavy Industry is showing off Kuratas: a 13-foot wearable robot that makes Call of Duty armored ...

Elijah Hilton, 11, a student at the summer Lego Robotics Camp held at the Exploration Station in Grover Beach, was completely immersed in programming his robot vehicle. “It should never hit the wall,” Elijah said. He had programmed it to ...

In this week's Always On (Episode 7), host Molly Wood visits robotics research lab Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif., to see how its crafty $400,000 PR2 robot fares as a sushi waiter. PR2 looks like a juiced-up version of Rosie the robotic ...

An engineering team has published a paper revealing that by giving a robot the right tail, it can always land on its feet — just like a cat. The University of Pennsylvania’s Kod*lab appears to have found a way to gracefully circumvent a robot’s ...

A Japanese electronics company has unveiled a 4m super-robot at the Wonder festival in Tokyo that can easily be controlled by an iPhone. The robot made by Suidobashi Heavy Industry in Tokyo, is fitted with a futuristic weapons system, including a Gatling ...

By New Year’s she was begging to go to “robot camp” in the summer and, it turns out, it was like Christmas morning all over again in July. FIRST was founded in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen. You probably ...

Milagrow will name an upcoming tablet and domestic robot after Gagan Narang, who won India's first medal at the London Olympics on Monday. NEW DELHI: Milagrow will name an upcoming tablet and a domestic robot after Gagan Narang, who won India's ...

Piloting a giant humanoid robot has only been something you could watch on your television screen… until now. A team of hobbyists, skilled engineers and robot-lovers in Japan created an honest-to-goodness mech you can actually drive.

Piloting a giant humanoid robot has only been something you could watch on your television screen… until now. A team of hobbyists, skilled engineers and robot-lovers in Japan created an honest-to-goodness mech you can actually drive.

WATERLOO, Ontario, July 30 (UPI) -- Canadian scientists say they've made a robot that not just walks on water like the water strider insect but leaps over the surface like its living counterpart. A number of tiny robots that can walk on water ...

The Cardboard Robot, currently seeking funding on the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter, has hired the digital marketing agency Command Partners to lead its marketing campaign. The open source Cardboard Robot is the brainchild of Ken Ihara ...

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s new robot rover named Curiosity has spent 8½ months hurtling through space toward its destination Sunday on Mars. It is set to land near the foot of a mountain rising from a giant crater. This marks NASA’s 19th mission and ...

Suidobashi Heavy Industry has just introduced the finished version of its heavy-duty robot dream machine at the Wonder Festival in Tokyo. Since we last saw Kuratas, it’s grown a foot taller and gotten hold of a ball-bearing Gatling gun that fires 6,000 ...

Mecha-heads rejoice: A Gundam-style giant robot has come to life in Japan, promising joyrides aplenty in this 13-foot humanoid machine on wheels. Suidobashi Heavy Industry showed off its Kuratas mecha bot over the weekend in Makuhari just ...

Mecha-heads rejoice: A Gundam-style giant robot has come to life in Japan, promising joyrides aplenty in this 13-foot humanoid machine on wheels. Suidobashi Heavy Industry showed off its Kuratas mecha bot over the weekend in Makuhari just ...