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A new robot will aid smartphones and other devices using global positioning system (GPS) to calculate their location to millimetres.

The last full-up Army brigade in Afghanistan has all the latest tech.

Are you rich, lonely and want a giant robot to hug? Then today is your lucky day. A nine foot tall humanoid robot built in...

Diners at this Chinese-cuisine restaurant in South Korea may get a happy bonus if they happen to be fans of Japanese giant robot manga and anime shows.

Da Vinci Robot Lawsuit Trial Underway in Washington State is Nation’s First Involving Allegations of Da Vinci Robotic Surgery Complications. (PRWeb May 19, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10735359.htm

A “high tech rave”-like performance piece happening tonight at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is actually designed to help campus roboticists create algorithms based on human behavior that can better control large swarms of robots, researchers told the Herald. Doubling as an experiment, “UP: The Umbrella Project” is the second collaboration between MIT’s Computer Science and ...

LOS ANGELES -- When NASA takes the next big step in Mars exploration - retrieving a rock sample and bringing it safely back to Earth - it might have to thank a few dedicated hobbyists who are doing the hardscrabble work to develop a robot that can drive itself. | Photos: Topanga Man Builds Robot To Compete For $1.5 Million NASA Prize

LOS ANGELES -- When NASA takes the next big step in Mars exploration - retrieving a rock sample and bringing it safely back to Earth - it might have to thank a few dedicated hobbyists who are doing the hardscrabble work to develop a robot that can drive itself. | Photos: Topanga Man Builds Robot To Compete For $1.5 Million NASA Prize

LOS ANGELES -- When NASA takes the next big step in Mars exploration - retrieving a rock sample and bringing it safely back to Earth - it might have to thank a few dedicated hobbyists who are doing the hardscrabble work to develop a robot that can drive itself. | Photos: Topanga Man Builds Robot To Compete For $1.5 Million NASA Prize

mikejuk writes "The new Arduino robot looks a bit like a robot vacuum cleaner, but it has a lot more going for it and it certainly doesn't suck — well not unless you add an air pump to it. As always, the Arduino Robot is completely open source and comes as an easy to assemble kit involving no soldering, just some plugging in of components. It consists of two circular boards, 19cm in diameter ...

A photo of a massive robot arm entertaining guests at a Google I/O party this week really needed a good caption, so we reached out to readers. Here's what they came up with. [Read more]        

A photo of a massive robot arm entertaining guests at a Google I/O party this week really needed a good caption, so we reached out to readers. Here's what they came up with. Originally posted at Crave

Robots will see us, hear us and respond to us; they will recognize our faces and perceive our smiles.

Robot-assisted surgeries have changed the medical landscape for patients with certain diagnoses, including some types of cancer. Commentator Barbara J. King looks forward to meeting her robot surgeon next week and getting the job done.

Students at MIT in the US have created the IkeaBot, a robot capable of putting together Ikea furniture on its own without the help of us humans.

A new robot purchased through a community fund will give the Tri-City Regional SWAT team a much need

Roboticist Will Jackson of Engineered Arts gives a tour of his robot factory in Cornwall, and talks about recent developments in the industry.

Driving on the moon, 1972 (NASA) In December of 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt got to do something awesome: They took a joyride on the moon. A long one. The pair piloted ...

"Crowd control" took on a whole new meaning Wednesday night as a room full of partygoers were given power over a cocktail-making robot controlled by their smartphones.

CONYERS, Ga., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (Pink Sheets: GOSY | http://www.geckosystems.com/ ) has announced that final negotiations for licensing of their "Mobile Robot Solutions ...