Institute for Personal Robots in Education Blog

Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools. The research furthers the development of more intelligent robots, which can then be used by industry, and by ...

TOKYO— Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu on Monday reported nearly a 40 percent plunge in profit for the January-March quarter, largely on costs to restructure its computer chips operations. Declining prices of its stock holdings, slightly weaker ...

LOS ANGELES (Fortune) -- In Pixar Films' upcoming animation epic, "Wall-E," the title character is a cute but clunky robot whose centuries of solitude on an abandoned Earth is broken by the arrival of a svelte, futuristic robot named Eve - who is so ...

TOKYO - Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu on Monday reported nearly a 40 percent plunge in profit for the January-March quarter, largely on costs to restructure its computer chips operations. Declining prices of its stock holdings, slightly weaker ...

HSBC profits up despite $3.2 billion write-down US health secretary: Chinese Heparin shipped to US now safe MBIA slides to huge 1Q loss on hefty charges PMI Group swings to hefty 1Q loss on defaults Pollo Campero opens franchise in US Wal-Mart store ...

For most of us, a fly is a pest but, it turns out, its eyes could revolutionize robot vision (employed for unmanned vehicles, guided missiles, and high-speed industrial inspection robots in medical, commercial, industrial, and defense areas ...

TOKYO - Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu on Monday reported nearly a 40 percent plunge in profit for the January-March quarter, largely on costs to restructure its computer chips operations. Declining prices of its stock holdings, slightly weaker ...

Lucky for researcher Sarah Partan, left, and assistants Maya Gounard and Andrew Fulmer, the wild squirrels roaming the Hampshire College campus don't seem to notice the wires connecting Rocky the mechanical squirrel to Fulmer's laptop. MHERST, Mass ...

The need for better prosthetics, driven in part by the hundreds of amputees returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, has spurred a host of innovations enabling unprecedented control over artificial arms and legs. Already, researchers have begun unveiling ...

ATLANTA - Cars passing O'Terrill's pub screech to a halt at the sight of a 300-pound, waist-high robot marked "SECURITY" rolling through downtown long after dark. The regulars hardly glance outside. They've seen bar owner Rufus Terrill's invention on ...

Antonio Puerta, the Seville player, dies after collapsing during a match and a couple of days later, Clive Clarke, of Leicester City, suffers heart failure in a Carling Cup tie. He survives, but questions are asked about the demands placed by the ...

A nurse shows a man how to use a robot to test his veins and blood flow at a hospital. Japan is leading the way in involving robots in society, such as in hospitals and day cares to help fill in for a declining population. The kids wear special code ...

Clinton Township-based Kuka Robotics Corp. is unveiling the Kuka 1000 Titan to the North American market at the upcoming Cast Expo 2008 from May 17-20 in Atlanta, Ga. The Kuka KR 1000 Titan is the company's latest product and with its heavyweight ...

The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, ‘ Pinta the robot sailing boat ,’ has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to ...

WASHINGTON -- An apartment building near Landover had to be evacuated Saturday due to a bomb scare. Prince George's County police confirmed the suspicious package found at the Cheverly Terrace Apartments was not a bomb, but they said it had all the ...

Depending on how much you enjoy watching stuff blow up, we're about to enter either the best or the worst time of the year for films. But there's one thing everyone can agree on: The summer movie season has become very predictable. Where there was ...

Rita and Daniel Nelson of Jamestown check out the da Vinci Surgical System on Saturday at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dan Nelson got the chance Saturday to meet the robot that saved his life. This past fall, Nelson, 77, a retired water treatment ...

Like the dawn of artificial intelligence, the arrival of the BigDog robot -- the most advanced robot on the planet -- creeps people out. On YouTube, where videos of the robot performing maneuvers that would dislocate the joints of man or beast have ...

Ken Hedrich peered through his camera 75 years ago and captured the images of his age. Now, those photographs of the Century of Progress Exposition -- the World's Fair that opened on Chicago's lakefront in 1933 -- are being readied for a new life on ...

WALK: With Aylesbury and District Rambers. Meet at 10am Waddesdon. At War Memorial at entrance to the manor near Five Arrows Hotel. A wonderful ramble with fine views. Bring drink and snack for stop during walk. Meals available at the pub in ...