robot

Gun-toting robot still in training

News The US Army has delayed deployment of a robot equipped with a machine gun, a slight setback in the march of robots into war. The robot, however, required some adjustments, according to Bob Quinn, spokesman for the manufacturer Foster-Miller.

23 June 2005, 9:48

Photos: Racing robot cars

News The Ben Franklin Racing Team, based in Philadelphia, has turned a silver-gray Toyota Prius hybrid into a robot whose electronics can draw on the car's battery power and drive more efficiently than other cars.

5 October 2007, 10:06

News.blog: The man-sized rolling robot

News Who needs a robot on two legs when you can have one that rolls? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, a well-known hub for breakthroughs in robotics, said on Wednesday that they've built a new type of mobile robot that can balance and move in...

10 August 2006, 8:55

Photos: Robot gets the teas in

News That's the best part about a robot. You probably won't see a robo-barista at your local Starbucks anytime soon, but in Japan a new generation of robots is in training to serve tea. In a demonstration this week at Tokyo University, a pair of...

5 March 2007, 10:32

Lego robot creators unite

News Gray and his fellow selectees will be the first members of the public to get their hands on Mindstorms NXT, the latest generation of the company's programmable robot toys. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Lund was showing...

8 March 2006, 9:41

Photos: Robot to the rescue

News The latest twist on having robots do dangerous jobs -- such as carrying wounded soldiers out of the line of fire -- comes from a company called Vecna Technologies: the BEAR, short for 'battlefield extraction and retrieval robot'.

25 September 2006, 10:35

Photos: Pleo, the sensitive robot

News It's a robot, coming out in the second quarter of 2007, that exhibits emotional reactions to its surroundings. It also makes a sort of mooing sound, which is appropriate given that the robot is modelled after the Camarasaurus, a cow-like dinosaur...

22 November 2006, 9:13

Scrubbing getting you down? Get a robot

News But because it's a robot, you push a button and it cleans your floor. Even if it wasn't a robot, this makes mopping obsolete. Most are slippery, and would throw off a robot's steering systems. The high-end robot vacuum, the Roomba Discovery, sells...

24 May 2005, 9:49

News.blog: Own Robby the Robot

News Robby the Robot, in Forbidden Planet. And for a mere $49,999.95 (£28,800), you too can chat with the special edition, life-size, fully animatronic remote-controlled version of the famous robot from the classic 1956 science fiction film.

8 November 2005, 9:34

Photos: How a robot learns to walk -- and limp

News Even though it's pretty much all legs, the robot doesn't know -- at first -- that it can walk. The models compete over which can best explain the past experiences of the robot," Cornell professor Hod Lipson said in a statement.

21 November 2006, 10:05

Robot promoters back Linux

News To spur the development of robots at the hobbyist level, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is promoting a low-cost programmable robot named HRP-2m Choromet.

17 July 2006, 10:00

Photos: Ripping up the robot guitar

News The "robot" part of the name refers to the guitar being a self-tuning instrument. The strings of the guitar are like normal guitar strings -- in fact, much of the Robot It's not a robot," Carey noted.

Tags: self, networks, embedded, board

17 April 2008, 9:17

Photos: Robot submarines splash out

News Being a grown-up doesn't mean you can't still play with bathtub toys -- you just get bigger, better, robotic toys. Last weekend in San Diego, that's the spirit that brought together an array of teams looking to make waves at the 9th International...

11 August 2006, 10:20

Photos: Hands-on robot joins space station

News On Tuesday, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour will have a special Canadian visitor when they rocket off on their trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Canadian Space Agency's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, aka "Dextre", is...

Tags: objects, base, installed, space

11 March 2008, 9:04

Photos: NASA tests robot moon trucks

News NASA is planning development of a fleet of robotic trucks and rovers designed to explore the lunar surface, which astronauts are expected to revisit around 2020. Based on the success of Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which have been...

Tags: surface, moon, vehicle, apollo

29 February 2008, 9:41