Industrial robots exhibit varying degrees of autonomy. Robots are programmed to faithfully do specific actions over and over again without variation and with a high degree of accuracy. These actions ...

In this article you will learn how to build a programmable Snap Circuits Rover by adding a PICAXE micro controller. First, you will learn how to install the PICAXE Programming ...

Robots just wrapped up a game of soccer in Iran. There were cute, smiling humanoid robots, blocky erector set robots, and robots that looked they waltzed out of a Japanese ...

Blizzard will soon be adding a Bad Robot pet to their MMO World of Warcraft. This pet is meant as a show of respect for Bad Robot Productions, the TV/film ...

For anyone out there whose greatest fear is the rise of the machines, I've got some bad news for you: scientists at UW are hard at work developing more knowledgeable ...

Almost as fast as you can say "go-go-gadget arm," an octopus can stretch its arm more than twice its normal length—without the help of any cyborg attachments. What's more, according ...

In this article you will learn how to build a programmable Snap Circuits Rover by adding a PICAXE micro controller. First, you will learn how to install the PICAXE Programming ...

The goal of this study was to present a comprehensive view of the global robotics industry from the research laboratory to the replacement parts business. To that end the study ...

Okay, today will not be heroic rescue & recovery robots, nor life-changing assistive robots for the disabled and elderly. No, today we're talking Japan's industrial robots, and through profound statistics, ...

"When I observed my first transurethral resection, I was amazed at how crude the instruments are and how much pushing and stretching of the patient's body is required,"Simaan said. That ...

In 1969 we sent a man to the moon. Then we sent Voyagers 1 and 2 into deep space to discover life that is not ours. They found geysers on ...

NASA must produce several proprietary documents related to its development of a robotic arm that is the subject of a patent dispute, the Court of Federal Claims ruled.Ross-Hime Designs, a ...

Two Hewitt-Trussville High School students' robotic arm project won the National Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Achievement Award earlier this month.Darby Franklin and Bella Goubeaux's "Sip and Puff Robotic Arm ...

Those with osteoarthritis of the knee had an opportunity to learn about MAKOplasty, a procedure powered by a robotic arm, at East Cooper Medical Center's free health fair this past ...

We take a bath; do our writing, eating, work and almost everything with the use of our limbs and hands. So what occurs if these arms and hands were taken ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station began unloading cargo from the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Monday, a day after the commercially delivered capsule was attached to the station.Tom Marshburn, a ...