'Swivl' Video Robotics Raises $500k from Grishin
Swivl, a company that specializes in making personal robots with an integral video element, announced it has just raised a $500,000 round from Grishin Robotics, VentureBeat reports. - 05/24/2013

Vigilus - the Robotic Security Guard
The development taking place in the robotics realm seems like it is going to be replacing many of the jobs currently being performed by human beings, and security is them. Robotic security applications for robotics can perform the same tasks over and… - 05/23/2013

Ants Provide Georgia Tech Researchers Ideas for Robotic Innovation
The research focuses on how fire ants are able to move so well in as confined a space as a tunnel while keeping the tunnels themselves structurally sound. This type of data can then be used to create robots that conduct better search and rescue opera… - 05/23/2013

Renewed Robotics Investment Shows Wyss Courting Mother Nature
When it comes to the mechanical minions that we employ to scuttle around our environment and help us out in harsh environments or rescue scenarios, nobody provides more support in efficiency research than good old Mother Nature. A constant pool of ea… - 05/22/2013

1950s 8-foot Robot Gygan is up for Auction at Christie's
Gygan or Cygan was the creation of aeromodeller Dr. Ing Fiorito of Turin, Italy, and the robot captured the imagination of everyone that saw it for the first time when it was introduced to the public at the Milan sample fair in 1957. - 05/21/2013

The Bots Go Marching Two By Two...
Evolution is the ultimate trial and error process when it comes to the development of biological machines. Countless millennia have seen creatures big and small pay the ultimate price to have their species move on without them and the flawed traits t… - 05/21/2013

Miniature Curved Robotic Compound Eyes
Have you ever wondered by it is so difficult to catch a fly, or most insects for that matter? In addition to quick reflexes, the main reason is the fact that they have compound curved eyes. This gives them the ability to see movement within a nearly … - 05/21/2013

Disney Research and KIT Synthesize Handoff Motion by Humanoid Robots
Whenever a breakthrough is made in robotics that excites individuals in the field, the rest of us sometimes scratch our heads and say, "What is the big deal?" In reality, the deal is quite big, because the amount of time and research it takes to over… - 05/21/2013

ARTAS Robotic Takes the Gold at the Edison Awards
The Wall Street Journal has named the ARTAS Robotic System as the winner of this year's Edison Award, an award that was established in 1987 by the non-profit group, Edison Universe. The goal of the group is to gain attention for companies who have ma… - 05/21/2013

Doctors with a 'Robotic' Bedside Manner
Over the years, more than a few doctors have been accused of having a "robotic" bedside manner. Now, thanks to new advancements in technology, some patients may mean it literally. The Mercy Telehealth Network in California is using robots to enable d… - 05/21/2013

Build Your Own Robot Quicker, Easier with Linkbot Modular Systems
For many, the dream of building a robot is just that: a dream. Actually assembling one of these mechanical marvels can be tough enough, but then trying to program the robot to do anything useful makes matters even worse. But with Linkbot--a project f… - 05/20/2013

Harvard Researchers Demonstrate 3D-printed Crawling, Self-Folding Robot
Manufacturing increasingly relies on the use of robots to perform tedious, repetitive tasks at high speeds, and decades of evidence shows us that robots do save money. But one area where robots cost companies when it comes to operations is in their m… - 05/20/2013

Underwater Robotics to Grow Nearly 7 Percent in Next 4 Years
Underwater robotics is used for scientific exploration, search and rescue, environmental cleanup and military applications. According to a new report from TechNavio titled, "Global Underwater Robotics Market 2012-2016," the market is forecasted to gr… - 05/20/2013

Robotics Week in Review
It was a busy week in the Robotics sector. Here are some of the major stories from SDNzone. - 05/18/2013

RP-VITA Allows Doctors Access to Far Away Patients
It sounds almost like something out of a science fiction story: a human-height robot wandering the hallways, with a screen on top showing the face of the person who is controlling it and seeing from the robot's perspective. However, according to a re… - 05/17/2013

Is the Jetson's Robotic Maid Rosie in Our Near Future?
While the flying car may still be a long way off, robotics in the home are coming closer to reality. We've already seen one household robot: iRobot's Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, introduced in 2002. - 05/17/2013

KUKA Announces Robotics Competition
KUKA, the German robotics company, has announced that it will hold a robotics competition geared toward mobile manipulation application advancement and promoting the company's youBot. The KUKA youBot is a mobile robot with a wide variety of uses. - 05/17/2013

Introducing tim-E, the Robot Alarm Clock and Bedside Companion
There is a new project launched on Kickstarter that Apple mobile device users should know about, and might even decide to pledge money to if they like it: tim-E. This is an "alarm clock and bedside companion that charges your iPhone or iPod Touch." T… - 05/17/2013

Robotic Bartender Shows off at Google I/O
Lately, robots have been put to use in a wide variety of life or death situations. Robots can now be used to perform surgeries, put out fires and even fight in combat. However, with all of these important applications, it can be easy to overlook the … - 05/17/2013

5D Robotics Moves To New, Larger Office To Support Growth And Expansion
Robotics software provider, 5D Robotics, is one of the few American companies that defied the economic uncertainties and continued to thrive over the past few years. In order to cope with the growing business, the company decided to expand its operat… - 05/16/2013

A Hospital Stay Will Soon Come with More Robots, Say Investors
Right now, the idea of a hospital stay is shockingly short on robots, according to John Simon, a partner with Boston investment firm Sigma Prime Ventures. Simon likens the idea to "the first inning of a nine-inning exercise," saying that most patient… - 05/16/2013

MIT Students Unleash IkeaBot To Build Simple Furniture
While there are those who believe that robots will spell doom for all mankind, and those who believe that robots will usher in a new golden age where we no longer work while robots do all the work for us, perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle.… - 05/16/2013

Your Robot Will See You Now: Therapeutic Robots for Children with Cancer
Hospitals take a number of steps to make kids feel comfortable during their cancer treatment. Phys.org is reporting that the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) of Lisbon, Portugal, aims to produce a fleet of robots that will both collaborate with medic… - 05/14/2013

NASA Unmanned Aircraft Competition Planned for May 2014
When most people hear the phrase "unmanned aircraft," the first thing they think of are the controversial drones being used in warfare. However, unmanned aircrafts are used in a wide variety of situations, including firefighting and environmental dat… - 05/14/2013

Robotics Week in Review
It was a busy week in the Robotics sector. Here are some of the major stories from TMCnet. - 05/11/2013

Travis Robotics Program Sets National Example
Three years ago, an Inventions Robotics team from Travis Elementary School in Texas found itself placing in the top half of competitors in a regional competition. That was the first year of Travis Elementary's LEGO robotics extracurricular program, a… - 05/09/2013

Robots Enabling Paraplegics to Lead More Normal Lives
If you have a disability, no matter if it's physical or mental, there are tasks that many of us may take for granted on a daily basis that can be extremely hard to complete for people who fall into this category. Looking at a specific example of some… - 05/09/2013

High Volume of Prostatectomies Proves to be More of a Risk Factor than Robot Involvement
Robotic surgeries have the potential to change modern medicine, but it is important to make sure that the procedures are safe before they begin being implemented. Although studies had previously been conducted on the safety and effectiveness of robot… - 05/08/2013

Creaform Unveils MetraSCAN-R Series of Robot-Mounted 3D Scanners
Industrial/manufacturing sectors are usually compelled to deliver complex products within short production cycles in order to remain competitive. This can lead to setbacks in fabrication quality of the product, as companies sometimes can't achieve hi… - 05/08/2013

3D Printed Robotic Hand Now Possible with MakerBot and Robohand
The idea of a robotic hand goes back a long way, though mostly as a fictional concept. But thanks to the 3D printer, the robotic hand is getting a whole new life, as are those who are benefiting from the combination of Robohand and MakerBot, who are … - 05/08/2013

Too Honest: Robot Tells You if Feet Smell or Breath Stinks
Human beings don't like to be told they smell - but it's probably better to hear it from a robot than from another person. In a new device from Japan, a robot that appears to be the head of a woman can measure the odor from someone's breath. If th… - 05/08/2013

Robotics Classes and Competitions Seeing Support around the Country
The evolution of robotics is advancing at an amazing rate and everyone from school children to NASA and DARPA are creating devices to solve many of the problems we currently face. Engineers and researchers are designing robots to clean oil spills in … - 05/08/2013

Paging Doctor Robot: RP VITA Robots to Hit Hospitals in US, Mexico
The RP VITA from iRobot is one of the biggest developments in telepresence robotics in a long time. Looking essentially like a monitor on a pillar with wheels on its underside and a control panel in the front, the robot looks very much like a robot. … - 05/07/2013

High School Students Engineer Robotic Locker Opener for Disabled Peer
Nick Torrance suffers from muscular dystrophy. The Pinckney Community High School junior had lost his ability to walk and to perform many tasks that for those un-afflicted are normal if not mundane - like opening his locker. Until now. - 05/07/2013

Smart Robots: Predicting What You Need and Doing Exactly That
The idea of a robot servant goes all the way back to the 1960s and beyond, especially with the dawning of "The Jetsons," the animated series that was essentially the child of "The Flintstones." While "The Jetsons" didn't fare as well as "The Flintsto… - 05/06/2013

Robotic 3-Fingered Hand Could be Used in Diverse Applications
A new three-fingered hand on a robot can easily lift 50 pounds - giving it potential widespread uses in diverse areas. The three-fingered device was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and iRobot. It is so rugged it … - 05/06/2013

RoboBee Flies into the Future of Miniature Robotics
RoboBee is reported to be the tiniest flying robot found anywhere - and it has made its first test flight. Developed at Harvard University, its wings measure some three centimeters and it weighs less than a tenth of a gram. - 05/03/2013

NASA Robots Invade Greenland
NASA has unveiled its newest rover being tested from May 3 to June 8. The robot, named GROVER (Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research) will deploy ground-penetrating radar to study how snow accumulates on a… - 05/02/2013

Robotic Arms with Tactile Feelings Make Their Debut
Robotic arms have been improving recently, and now they've gotten even better. The Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University has developed new robotic control methods that use whole-arm tactile sensing, providi… - 05/01/2013

Baseball-Playing Robot Could Lead to Fully Recreated Brain
Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have built a robot with only one true purpose: to play the Great National Pastime of America. Not only could this lead to possible ro… - 04/30/2013

When Rescue Dogs Can't Do it All, Engineers Turn to Snake-Like Robots
Dogs may be man's best friends, but there are some tight spots even they can't reach to help rescue trapped human beings. So Carnegie Mellon University researchers have partnered rescue dogs with a snake-like robot. In a recent test, two dogs equi… - 04/29/2013

Rethink Robotics Announces Research Robot Baxter
Developers at Rethink Robotics in Boston have the newest version of the company's flagship product, the Baxter Research Robot. The humanoid robot was developed for use in colleges and universities, and is designed to work alongside technicians and re… - 04/29/2013

Robotics Technology Week in Review
Let's welcome the weekend by wrapping up the headlines in robotics technology for this week. - 04/27/2013

Kyodo America Introduces LawnBott LB3510 Brushless Robotic Mower
Ever-increasing workloads and the shortage of time have been making it more difficult for us to be able to pay attention to small things that make our lives beautiful. Robotic solutions just might enter there to make things easy for us, such as while… - 04/26/2013

IBM's New Robotic Helper Gives Field Repair Operations a Boost
When it comes to repairs done in the field, there are many unique problems that can really hamper operations. Even just finding where the equipment that needs repair is located can be a major issue, but IBM may have a solution for this in the form of… - 04/26/2013

Robot Mimics Movement Seen in Baby Sea Turtles
People have long been amazed at how newly-born sea turtles make their way through the sand to the ocean. Now scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a robot that can move in a similar way. It is called "Flipperbot," and it has similar wrist motion … - 04/25/2013

Humans Feel For Robots and Yeah, Humans, Too
How many of us cried watching Wall-E in his plaintive search for love in a post-apocalyptic landscape? Or, to go even further back, #5 in Short Circuit, when he crushed the grasshopper and Ally Sheedy chewed him out? - 04/24/2013

Robot Used to Locate Three Burial Chambers Lost for Centuries Under Aztec Temple
The Tlaloc II-TC robot has proven its value after it was used to find historic burial chambers hidden under an ancient Aztec temple in Mexico.The robot helped archeologists locate three burial chambers that had been lost for many centuries at Teotihu… - 04/24/2013

Keystone Automation Holds Open House to Demonstrate Robotics Capability
Last week, Duryea-based Keystone Automation, a company that designs and fabricates machinery for manufacturing, held an open house to show manufacturers how robots can streamline manufacturing business efficiently and cost effectively. - 04/24/2013

Activists Form Group to Preemptively Block Manufacturing, Use of 'Killer Robots'
A new organization has been formed in the United Kingdom called the "Campaign to Stop Killer Robots" - which wants to preemptively ban robots which can "attack targets without any human intervention." The robots are also called fully autonomous weapo… - 04/24/2013

Generation Robot?
Robots have always been cool and mysterious, and even a bit scary (they don't always behave). And for a long time now, we've been waiting for them to become a real part of our daily lives. Yet we, the general public, keep getting put off. - 04/23/2013

Six Legged Robot, Weighing Close to 2 Tons, Showed Off by UK Inventor
The robot is equipped with sensors, including force transducers, angle sensors, and an inclinometer. It also has a Linux PC running HexEngine - "software designed to control hexapods - this does the heavy processing required to keep all 18 hydraulic … - 04/23/2013

Robotic Technology Used to Arrest Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect, Protect the Public
Capturing the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing took hard work on the part of police officers, federal agents, members of the public and even trained dogs - but it also required the use of inanimate robots. - 04/22/2013

Contributions Being Sought for Robots Under Development in Scotland to Repair Coral Reefs
Scientists from Scotland who are developing a robot which can repair coral reefs are continuing their project - but they need more funds. - 04/18/2013

The HR-MP20: Helical's Wireless Climbing Robot
Eventually, robotics will provide reliable and effective solutions to many of the problems we face that require man-hours and safety concerns for the people usually assigned to performing these tasks. One of these unenviable jobs is maintaining wind … - 04/18/2013

The Next Spelling Bee Champ: The Nao Robot
New generations of robots can perform many tasks because of the increased processing power of computer chips capable of handling very complex algorithms. When Gary Kasparov was defeated by IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1997, it ushered in a wave of new… - 04/17/2013

Health Robotics Drops Fresenius Kabi Support
Health Robotics is making some changes. The company has announced that it is withdrawing sales support for Resenius Kabi's IV consumables, but has added support for LifeCare. - 04/17/2013

So, You Want A Drone? The Technology's Almost There!
Ever since the media have started covering stories about drones, people have been asking themselves, "How do I get one of my own?" Naturally, everyone wants the latest thing, but demand for drones was rather unexpected. Anyway, if you want your own d… - 04/17/2013

Tlaloc II-TC Robot to Explore Teotihuacan Archaeological Site
The idea of using a robot to go where a human wouldn't has been a popular one in science fiction, and to a lesser degree, in reality as well. Robots capable of performing such feats haven't been around all that long, but the concept of sending in the… - 04/16/2013

Robot Learns to Work Alongside Humans
It is said that anyone can follow IKEA furniture instructions, regardless of the builder's language. It seems that this is true even if you speak machine language - well, almost. - 04/16/2013

Smooth Operator: Elastic Robot Balances Fluid Movements
A new robot called COMAN (Compliant huMANoid), developed by the Italian Institute of Technology (ITT), is showing off some sweet moves. Well, sweet for a robot, anyway, which aren't known for their smooth motion ability. Usually they move as if on st… - 04/15/2013

vi-RABT Offers Robotic Assistive and Resistive Therapy for the Ankle
An ankle is necessary for standing, walking, running and keeping you stable. It performs these functions while bearing the weight of your entire body, which makes it highly susceptible to injuries. Beside physical trauma, strokes and cerebral palsy, … - 04/15/2013

FDA Exploring Problems Related to the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is exploring the increase of incidents related to the da Vinci robotic surgical system due to the fact that more and more reports are being received. The FDA conducts surveys not only of the da Vinci system, but… - 04/15/2013

Staubli Robotics Teams Up with Werner Electric
Robotic automation specialist, Stäubli Robotics, recently signed a partnership agreement with Minnesota-based Werner Electric to make Stäubli robots and robotic components, and to support the Stäubli-trained local sales network, available throughout … - 04/11/2013

Would You Have Sex with a Robot?
If that headline caught your attention, you've probably thought about the social and societal implications of robot sex before. After all, machines are acting more and more like humans every day, whether they are mimicking our facial expressions, ass… - 04/11/2013

Unleash the Robots - Consumer Robotics Market Set to Explode to $6.5 Billion
We've all seen the vacuum cleaner robots - chances are most of us wouldn't mind having one. After all, who likes to vacuum? For the most part however, the vacuum cleaner robot is about as far as we've come on the consumer robot front to date. There a… - 04/09/2013

Adept Launched New Line of PLC Programmable Robots
Adept Technology, Inc., a company that specializes in intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions, has been working on the release of its ePLC line of PLC programmable robots. - 04/08/2013

Silent Running: Robotic Marine Vehicle is Sun- and Wave-Powered
A Sunnyvale, California-based company has invented an unmanned, unsinkable, acoustically silent, self-propelled, data-collecting robotic vehicle that we think of as a kind of "ocean-bound drone"-without the missile-power, of course. - 04/08/2013

Let a Two-Arm Robot Remove Your Tire
A two-armed robot can already remove a tire and partially replace it with a spare. And someday, this robotic technology may be used to diffuse bombs or undertake other military work considered too risky for human hands. - 04/08/2013

DARPA's Two-Handed Robot Changes Tires, May Defuse Bombs
For those of us who grew up watching "The Jetsons" or reading Isaac Asimov, the robots of today have proved to be a bit disappointing. No metal humanoids who can speak and think (or take over the world) for us - simply robotic arms designed to perfor… - 04/08/2013

Swarm Robotics and its Many Potential Applications
Researchers in robotics are very optimistic regarding the application of using a swarm of robots working together to solve many of the problems we face today. The size of these robots starts at the nanoscale and can get as large as the creators need … - 04/05/2013

A Robot with a 'Vision': NASA Holds Contests to Fully See Robonaut Potential
Robonaut 2 (R2), the first dexterous humanoid robot in space, was sent to the International Space Station back in 2011 to help human astronauts on perilous missions, as well as some of the grunt work that apparently comes with being an astronaut. … - 04/05/2013

Help Bring Fritz the Robot Puppet Head Home!
Just look at that face! It's like Edward Scissorhands meets Wall-E, meets Arthur Lubow's "The Scream." This fretful little guy just needs a snuggle to feel all better - preferably from your wallet. - 04/03/2013

Robot Jellyfish Acts Like the Real Deal
A robot jellyfish measuring roughly the size of a human being may sound like the stuff of SyFy Saturday night movie fodder, but for students at the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, such a robot jellyfish is a reality that's helping students of m… - 04/02/2013

DARPA Makes Big Strides Toward Making Cheaper, Better Robotic Hands
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently released a video demonstrating progress made in a national research project to develop low-cost artificial hands. The video shows a robot that is almost capable of changing a tire unassis… - 04/02/2013

Aldebaran Robotics' Nao the Robot Purchased by Kansas School
Aldebaran Robotics, a provider of humanoid robotics, has made huge strides with its Nao robot since its initial release. After unveiling Nao Next Gen toward the end of 2011, the robot's focus has been for research and general exploration in the area … - 04/02/2013

Big Potential In Bad Terrain: The Grizzly RUV
Most have heard of a sport utility vehicle, or an SUV. A lot of people drive one daily, and wouldn't drive anything else if given the opportunity. But when faced with terrain where even an SUV would balk, some are turning to a little earlier point in… - 04/02/2013

Robot Jellyfish Acts Like The Real Deal
A robot jellyfish measuring roughly the size of a human being may sound like the stuff of SyFy Saturday night movie fodder, but for students at the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, such a robot jellyfish is a reality that's helping students of m… - 04/02/2013

Local Robotics Team on to Nationals After Unexpected Regionals Win
The Granite City Gearheads robotics team was excited to compete in the one competition they could afford this season, but they certainly weren't expecting to win. The relatively new team is comprised of students grades 9-12 from three high schools fr… - 04/02/2013

Robotics Revolutionizes Hair Restoration Procedures
Robotics technologies have revolutionized several industry segments including healthcare. Robots-assisted surgeries are being adopted in all fields of medicines. Thanks to the support of robots, surgeons are relieved from performing several complex a… - 04/02/2013

Pinnaclemed Brings Mazor Robotics Renaissance Spinal Surgery System to Taiwanese Market
Mazor Robotics Ltd. is the developer of the surgical guidance system Renaissance, and has had regulatory approval to market the technology in Taiwan since January 2013. This week the company announced that Pinnaclemed Co., Ltd., its distribution part… - 04/01/2013

New Australian Initiative Gives Virtual Visits to National Museum with Educational Robot
Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in Australia, has just unveiled a new project that will bring robotics and broadband technology into schools. - 03/28/2013

Make It So: Star Trek Drones Light Up London During Earth Hour
Thirty quadcopter drones equipped with LED lights, powered by Ascending Technologies, flew in formation to recreate the Star Trek badge over Potters Field Park in London during Earth Hour. - 03/27/2013

Ocean Robots! Liquid Robotics Raised $45 Million Researching Marine-bots
Major developments in how humans interact with and understand the ocean are coming to light. Such developments apparently also apply to non-humans - aka robots, as they are on the forefront of our marine advancements. Yesterday, Liquid Robotics, an o… - 03/27/2013

Australian Students Get Virtual, Interactive Tour of Museum by a Robot Named Conroy
Demonstrating a cutting-edge mix of technologies including robotics and telepresence, a robot recently gave students a remote, interactive and "virtual" tour around Melbourne, Australia's National Museum Landmark Gallery. Led by an educator, the robo… - 03/27/2013

Carnegie Mellon Snake Robot Getting Eerily More Realistic
In order to appreciate the complexities of any biological life form, all you have to do is try to replicate it, or come as close as the available technology will allow. The latest evolution allows the robotic snake to be thrown on a pole or tree,… - 03/25/2013

ASI Guideline Robotic Convoy System Nominated as 2013 Edison Award Finalist
Autonomous Solutions' Guideline Robotic Convoy System has been selected as a 2013 Award finalist by Edison Awards. The system was named in the applied technologies (Safety) category. The applied technologies category is among 12 other categories t… - 03/25/2013

SAM Robot Scales Tall Buildings for Efficient Damage Assessment
High-rise buildings can reach 20 stories tall or more, so it's a difficult job to keep up with building inspection, structural repairs and damage control-not to mention a dangerous one. - 03/21/2013

Robots Infiltrate Speech Therapy and Physical Therapy Spaces
Sure, we've all seen robots build things, but seeing where robots step in from there is a process that's amazing and disturbing all at the same time. Telepresence robots, robots with military applications and now, robots geared toward the healthcare … - 03/21/2013

Spotlight Fades on the Svedka Fembot
Maybe the attraction factor in mechanical models wore thin after a while, but the vodka enthusiasts at Svedka have decided to indefinitely bench their sexy 'fembot' as the company's brand icon. - 03/21/2013

European Space Agency Creates an App for Crowdsourcing
Robotics is a key component in space travel because it provides an alternative to manned missions in an extremely hostile environment to humans. Whether it's using a remote-controlled crane to launch a satellite from a cargo bay, or a robotic arm to … - 03/20/2013

World's First Wind-Powered Polar Rover Explores Antarctic in Eco-Friendly Expedition
Antarctica is almost as unknown and unexplored as Mars, so it's understandable that scientists would develop a rover to explore the territory. Though it's been done before, the newest robotic recruit is run on renewable energy - an important firs… - 03/19/2013

Michigan's BBC Celebrates Robotic Surgery Milestone with daVinci System
Michigan's Bronson Battle Creek (BBC) surgery program recently celebrated its 1,000th robotic surgery case, giving more proof that robotic surgery - once considered a pipe dream - is here to stay. The robotic technology used at BBC is known as th… - 03/19/2013

Liquid Robotics Raises $45M in Series E Funding
Autonomous ocean robots manufacturer, Liquid Robotics, has raised $45 million in series E funding, led by Riverwood Capital, a growth-focused technology private equity firm. Others participating in this round include existing investor, VantagePoint C… - 03/19/2013

Hamilton Robotics Revolutionizes Liquid Handling with New, Flexible PCR Setup Workstation
When it comes to liquid handling systems, research labs around the world swear by the name of Hamilton Robotics. Taking its product line to the next level, the company has recently come up with the industry's first automated liquid handling workstati… - 03/19/2013

M.I.T. Researchers Develop Super Fast Robotic Cheetah - Sort of...
Researchers over at the M.I.T. Department of Mechanical Engineering have been tinkering with - and succeeding - in creating a robot that can move faster than a locomotive. Well, not quite. - 03/18/2013

Keep Your Grill Clean with Grillbot
We have robots that are designed to clean just about anything these days. There are robots that are designed to vacuum your floor and scare your cat at the same time. Other robotic devices can mow your lawn, or at least do some trim work, clean your … - 03/18/2013

ROPITS is Hitachi's New Self-Driving Robot
Human beings do many things well, but driving in traffic is often not one of them. A solution that has been on the drawing board for quite some time is now creating smart roads and vehicles so they can interact with each other to control traffic … - 03/14/2013

EDAP TMS Debuts Focal.One Robotic HIFU device for Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer
EDAP TMS, a specialist in therapeutic ultrasound, has launched the Focal.One robotic HIFU device, which can perform specialized focal therapy for prostate cancer. Marc Oczachowski, chief executive officer at EDAP TMS, said, "We are very excited t… - 03/14/2013

Oreo: HERB's Favorite Cookie
Eating Oreo cookies by twisting the two halves and separating them to get to the cream is a childhood memory most Americans have. The process of picking up the cookie, separating the two halves and removing the cream is simple enough if you're a huma… - 03/14/2013

Robotic DNA
Picture a robot smaller than a human cell swimming around your body to detect the bad and good guys (cells). When the robotic cell comes across a bad guy it, will self-destruct, killing itself and the enemy in the process, saving the human body from … - 03/13/2013

iRobot Corp's Shares are Up, Stock Falls for Q1 2013
Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., robotic technology company iRobot Corp was founded in 1990 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticists. Since then, it has established a research group to perform cutting-edge research related to designing an… - 03/13/2013

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Team Entering CHIMP Robot at Upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge
The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) at Carnegie Mellon University is developing a robot for the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge. The CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform (CHIMP) combines the speed of rubberized tracks with the dexteri… - 03/13/2013

Ecovacs Robotics 'Winbot' Earns 2013 International Home + Housewares Innovation Award
Ecovacs Robotics 'Winbot,' an innovative robot built for cleaning windows, has recently been honored with an Innovation Award at the 2013 International Home + Housewares show, in the "Household + Home Environment Electrics" category. Winbot was pa… - 03/12/2013

Renaissance Robotic Technology for Doctors
Although for some it may sound unfeasible, during an era submerged in technology and its latest innovations, robots are now being used by doctors to help them while performing surgeries. - 03/11/2013

Magimix by Robot-Coupe Launches Luxury Toaster Giveaway with LuxeInACity Social Media Campaign
Luxury magazine LuxeInACity has teamed with Robot-Coupe's Magimix in a new social media campaign offering a chance to win the luxury kitchen item Magimix by Robot-Coupe Vision Toaster. The toaster is a chrome model featuring double insulated glass wi… - 03/11/2013

'Confused' Robots Can Turn to the Web for Help
Robots will be similar to human beings in a new way - they can now turn to the Web to get information about something that confuses them. - 03/08/2013

Team 766's Ultimate Ascent Robot Ready to Play
For those not familiar with Ultimate Ascent, it may well be one of the newest and strangest sports involving robots and small frisbees. Described as being a lot like disc golf for robots, the sport, part of the FIRST Robotics Competition, offers some… - 03/07/2013

Environment Simulator for Robotics Studies, MORSE 1.0, Released
Since 2011, several labs have been working on robotics technology middleware and a software framework for robot software development, better known as Robot Operating Systems (ROS) that implement simulation solutions for Multi Open Robots Simulator En… - 03/06/2013

Robotics Competition Leads to Creation of Michigan Startup Company Building Flying Robots
The winning entry from a recent robotics competition has inspired the creation of a company that will develop aerial robotic devices. Ann Arbor, Michigan-based SkySpecs is developing a turnkey solution that won't require programming and can be contro… - 03/06/2013

Boston Dynamics Creates BigDog, the Throwing Robot
A robot dog is one of the must-haves of any good science fiction future. Just look at K-9 from "Doctor Who," and you'll see what I'm talking about - it's not only a robotic dog, but it can hack computers and shoot laser beams. Sure, we've made so… - 03/06/2013

KC Robotics Launches New KUKA KR C4 Controller
KUKA Robotics has launched their newest controller for their line of industrial robots, the KUKA KR C4. It is designed to be more powerful, safer and even smarter than its predecessors. The KR C4 is a controller that saves space and offers efficiency… - 03/06/2013

Robot Band Compressorhead Takes Stage, Covers AC / DC Tune On German Television
Ah, robots...is there anything you can't do? We've seen robots do all sorts of things over the years, but earlier this week came a bit of a surprise as a three-piece band known as Compressorhead, comprised entirely of robots, took the stage on German… - 03/05/2013

The Robotic Bartender
In the past, robots have been used to assist doctors while performing surgeries, understand brain development, and even perform household chores - all of which require a science that robotics are known for. But with the new development of Party Robot… - 03/05/2013

Get Your Augmented Reality Robotic Friend
Every once and a while, a piece of technology comes along that is so cool it makes me feel like we're one step closer to the worlds in science fiction movies. This is one of those times. - 03/05/2013

Boston Dynamics' BigDog Gets Added Power Thanks to Boosted Throwing Arm
If there weren't already plenty of people out there losing sleep over the rise of the machines, then the newest version of the BigDog robot from Boston Dynamics should have plenty more studying late night television listings and brewing coffee. An al… - 03/04/2013

Planning a North Pole Trip? Better Have a Yeti Robot Along
While a robot yeti may sound like the stuff of science fiction, for the National Science Foundation (NSF), it's anything but as it plans to send the Yeti robot on missions to the Arctic and the Antarctic regions. The Yeti's purpose is to help make th… - 03/04/2013

Miimo, Honda's Lawn Roomba, Hits the Greens at the PGA Tour
For anyone who's ever played golf, the knowledge of how important grounds maintenance is to the game is firsthand knowledge. Nowhere is more apparent than on the PGA Tour. This is why it's a particularly gutsy move for both Honda and for the PGA Tour… - 03/04/2013

How Robots Can Help with Your Household Chores
David Hanson, a robot designer and engineer, has revolutionized the robotic world, as he is responsible for building technologies that allow robots to make more realistic facial expressions, called "Frubber," and appear more human. His discoveries sp… - 03/04/2013

Pacepacker Services Launches Second User Blu-Robot Pick and Place Systems
Pacepacker Services, an award winning packing equipment designer and manufacturer based in the U.K., recently launched a range of second user Blu-Robot pick and place systems that address manufacturer demands for more cost-effective automation soluti… - 03/04/2013

Dallas Hair Transplant Surgeon Adds ARTAS Robotic System to Practice
Dr. Samuel Lam is not your average plastic surgeon for a couple reasons, one being that he is board certified to conduct hair transplants and facial plastic surgery--using robots. - 02/28/2013

Teaching Household Robots Lateral Thinking So They Can See More Clearly
Coming up with the algorithm, computing power and robotics needed to make a household robot interact with its surrounding and the people in the house effectively is sometime away, but each breakthrough gets researchers that much closer to having C-3P… - 02/28/2013

Spring is Calling, and LawnBott is Answering with Midwest Home Shows
Mowing your lawn generally sucks. Everyone knows this, and it is widely accepted as a necessary chore, with lawn-length laws in effect in some places to keep neighborhood yards neat and tidy. - 02/28/2013

A 3-D Printed Robotic Bat Wing to Help Aerodynamic Designers, Biologists Understand Bats' Flight Method
Legend has it that modern day aeronautical engineers achieve high levels of agility in their designs by making the plane less stable and counting on computers and complex algorithms to keep the planes flying. This, to some extent is true. The agi… - 02/28/2013

Grishin Robotics Declares Investment in Bolt
The first venture capital firm with a focus on consumer robotics, Grishin Robotics has announced its investment in Boston-based hardware incubator Bolt, says azorobotics.com. Bolt assists in helping hardware startups, robotics and connected devic… - 02/26/2013

3D Print Your Very Own Robot Octopus?
While the idea of a robot octopus may best seem limited to the confines of cartoonish supervillians--it's not hard to envision Dr. Evil from the "Austin Powers" series gleefully tucking his pinky into the corner of his mouth at such a prospect--it's … - 02/26/2013

Hawaiian Participation in VEX Robotics World Championships Strong with 23 Teams
Hawaii may not be the first thing you think of when someone says "robots," but there is actually a connection between the two: 23 middle-school and high school students from Hawaii have been accepted to participate in the VEX World Championships. - 02/26/2013

Doctors' New Assistants: Robots
Although it may sound unfeasible, even during an era submerged in technology and its latest innovations, robots are now being used by doctors to help them while performing surgeries. - 02/26/2013

Rob Cain Takes Over as President and CEO of Adept Technology
The board of directors of Adept Technology a provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions and services appointed Rob Cain as president and chief executive officer following the resignation of John Dulchinos, who was also a director … - 02/26/2013

Cockroaches Could Help Scientists Design More Stable Robots
Scientists at the University of Michigan believe cockroaches could inspire better stability in robot designs. - 02/26/2013

Oxford University Scientists Create an iPad-Driven Car
With the arrival of autonomous or self-driven automobiles, several states have begun testing these driverless cars on their public roadways and highways alongside other motorists. According to the Christian Science Monitor, Nevada was one of the firs… - 02/22/2013

Lockheed Shows Off New Military Vehicle
Defense contractor giant, Lockheed Martin, revealed its latest military technology - a remote controlled squad support vehicle. Like drones that can be controlled and flown by Air Force personnel thousands of miles away, the Squad Mission Support Sys… - 02/22/2013

Spanish Retailer Mercadona Employs Cimcorp Robotic Picking Technology
Spanish food retailer Mercadona is in the process of implementing a fully automated robotic order picking system, with the help of Cimcorp Oy. - 02/22/2013

Robotics Now Helping Study Wildlife
David Hanson,a robot designer and engineer, has created a revelation in the robotic world, as he is responsible for building technologies that allow robots to make more realistic facial expressions, called "Frubber," to appear more human overall. His… - 02/13/2013

VEX Robotics Employs New Vice President of Engineering
To boost company's engineering & educational projects, VEXRobotics, Inc. recently appointed John V-Neun as the new vice president of Engineering. VEX Robotics is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Innovation First International, a source of educational… - 02/12/2013

ABB Robotics Unveils RoboScreen for Commercial and Entertainment Use
With the growing popularity of robotics in technology realm, ABB has partnered with Andy Flessas to provide RoboScreen function on a larger scale. - 02/11/2013

North American Robotics Market Has Strongest Year Ever
In this unpredictable economy, certain sectors have underperformed in recent years. But that cannot be said for the robotics industry which, according to reports, closed out 2012 with its strongest year ever. - 02/11/2013

FIRST Appoints Staff to Promote Robotics Programs in Growing Regions
We all have recognized the importance of science and technology for society in general; however, it has become even more important as of late, where scientific and technological knowledge is implemented virtually everywhere. So, many government, publ… - 02/08/2013

NASA's NIAC Program Creating New-Generation Robotics for Saturn Moon Titan, Other Planetary Explorations
NASA may not be its usual glorious self, but the agency is still the best in the world when it comes to innovating new technology that furthers space exploration and the society at large. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is specif… - 02/05/2013

Stealthy Robot Detects, Moves with Noises
The best opportunity to move silently is to move when the world around you is loud. That may sound like a page out of Sun Tzu, but it's also a page out of the playbook at the CSIRO Autonomous Systems Laboratory in Brisbane, Australia. - 02/05/2013

Robot Plays Badminton to Test New Energy Efficiency Software Application
There seem to be robots for everything nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before someone came up with an ecological badminton robot, right? While the idea may sound strange, the robot is in fact real, developed by the Flanders' Mechatronic… - 02/04/2013

International RoboCup Promotes Educational Growth in Robotics
As the idea of a robot seemed like such a futuristic, unfeasible thought only a decade ago, technology has quickly moved fast to catch up with our predictions of what life would be like in 2013. It seems now everyday new robotic inventions are making… - 01/31/2013

Library Automation Technologies Announces New Media Automation System to Improve Library Staff Operations
Library Automation Technologies (LAT), a provider of library automation products, stated that with its new LAT-Stena, library staff can enhance their operations and streamline media circulation. - 01/29/2013

The Year of the Robot
David Hanson is a robot designer and engineer who spent the past decade trying to create robots with character; ones that are able to empathize, understand speech and eventually begin to module how a person is actually feeling, so that relationships … - 01/28/2013

The Future of Technology Lies with Our Youth
With all these new technologies that are designed and targeted for our younger generation, it seems that an important generation has been lost in the process: senior citizens. Taking this into account, First Lego League (FLL) designed a project that … - 01/22/2013

The Future of Technology Lies with Our Youth
With all these new technologies that are designed and targeted for our younger generation, it seems that an important generation has been lost in the process: senior citizens. Taking this into account, First Lego League (FLL) designed a project that … - 01/22/2013

Universal Robots Enter U.S. Market
Danish robotics manufacturer Universal Robots has entered the U.S. market with its robotic arms. This unique collaborative robot is easy to program, can be easily moved from spot to spot throughout a factory, and is low in cost. - 01/21/2013

Vacuum Robotics Specialist Persimmon Technologies Raises $5.8 Million in Funding
Persimmon Technologies Corporation, a Massachusetts-based provider of vacuum robotics and hybrid-field motor technology for the semiconductor, LED, FPD and solar equipment markets, recently closed a $5.8m Series B funding round. - 01/15/2013

Robots Testing Singapore's Oil, Lubricants
The multinational inspection, testing and certificate-awarding company, Intertek, announced on January 13, 2013, that it had "expanded and enhanced its lubricant testing and oil condition monitoring services (OCM) in Singapore, with a new automated, … - 01/15/2013

Xerox and IEEE Lexington Donate in the Name of Math, Science
Thanks to a generous donation of $35,000 from the Xerox Foundation and IEEE Lexington, elementary school students in Fayette County will now be able to build their own robots. Both companies are happy to incorporate robotics in the math and scienc… - 01/15/2013

WSU Unveils Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Robotic Gripper at RoboSub Competition
The students at Washington State University (WSU) have finished building a self-operated robotic submarine that has been entered into the 16th annual International RoboSub Competition in San Diego. The yearly competition is hosted by both the Associa… - 01/15/2013

Marine Robots Hear Whale Songs
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world's largest private, not-for-profit oceanographic research institution. Its mission statement says that it is dedicated to research and education to advance understanding of the ocean and its int… - 01/10/2013

Five-Year Master Agreement Joins Carnegie Mellon University with Anglo American PLC for Robotic Mining Technologies
In order to develop new robotic technologies for mining, Carnegie Mellon University has partnered with the London-based mining company, Anglo American PLC, for a term of five years. - 01/09/2013

Meet NC State's New Robot Librarian
We all have memories of our favorite librarian. Perhaps it was an older woman or gentleman who helped us with a big research project in high school or college. Or maybe we remember the young, fun librarians who nurtured our reading habits as little k… - 01/08/2013

Lego Hits CES 2013 to Unveil New Line of Mindstorms Robot Kits
Lego has been a childhood staple for decades, and for about the last 15 years now, has offered those budding imaginations a chance to do a little something extra in the form of Mindstorms kits, which allowed those who owned them to build their own ro… - 01/07/2013

FSH of San Antonio Selects Mazor Robotics' Renaissance
Foundation Surgical Hospital recently announced that it has chosen the Renaissance system of Mazor Robotics Ltd. Mazor Robotics has already installed the Renaissance system four times in the state of Texas. The organization has also installed the sys… - 01/02/2013

Samsung's New Robot Vacuum May Have a Little Something Special
For gadget buffs, this is one of the greatest times of the year. Not only did they just land a passel of great gadgets thanks to a combination of holiday sales and end-of-the-year clearance sales, but with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) only a f… - 01/02/2013

LEGO Robotics Program Builds Next Generation of Robotics Engineers
LEGO Robotics programs across the country are making sure that the next generation of rocket scientists and robotic engineers are not floundering. There are many different LEGO Robotics programs across the country and the goal of all of them is rough… - 01/02/2013

NASA Grant Makes Dreams Come True for Ramona High School Robotics Team
The Ramona High School robotics team will be taken to new heights this year thanks to a $5,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to expand design capabilities and competition opportunities for the school at large. - 12/31/2012

Will Robotics Developments Bridge the Remote Employee Gap?
Communications technology continues to evolve to the point that phone conferences have morphed into Web conferencing, with visuals and sound to resemble the real thing. Companies throughout the world have replaced travel with the virtual meeting - 12/27/2012

Suitable Technologies' Telepresence Robots Give Remote Workers Physical Presence at their Workplace
Telepresence robots designed by Suitable Technologies have been providing a number of remote workers with a physical presence at their workplaces via a variety of features, including video cameras, speakers and microphones, while the wheels on the un… - 12/27/2012

SITA to Take Delivery of 2 ZenRobotics Recycler Systems
SITA Finland Ltd recently announced a strategic deal with ZenRobotics Ltd. Under the terms of the deal, SITA will take delivery of two ZenRobotics Recycler (ZRR) systems; one is the ZRR Heavy Picker, and the second one is the ZRR Fast Picker. Founded… - 12/26/2012

FIRST Robotics Participants Offered Free Sixclear LabVIEW Course
Sixclear has revealed that its Lucid LabVIEW Fundamentals Training will now be available to the participants of the FIRST Robotics Competition for no extra cost. For the past 22 years, the worldwide high school FIRST Robotics Competition has been spo… - 12/20/2012

Maiden VEX Robotics League Hosted by Grandville RoboDawgs
The maiden VEX Robotics League held in Michigan was hosted by Grandville RoboDawgs. The state's maiden VEX robotics league was started by 24 teams from West Michigan schools. - 12/20/2012

MarketResearch.com Showcases Popularity of Image-Guided and Robot-Assisted Surgeries
MarketResearch.com published a new market research report titled "Innovations and Trends in the Image-Guided and Robot-Assisted Surgery Markets." - 12/19/2012

Cinco Ranch High School Holds Second Annual FIRST LEGO League Robotics Qualifier Tournament
On Saturday, December 8th at Cinco Ranch Junior High, the second annual FIRST LEGO League robotics Qualifier Tournament was held. From all over the Houston metro area, robotics teams of 4th to 8th grade students competed in the tournament. To collect… - 12/19/2012

Berkeley Lab Develops a Microscale Actuator which Could be Used in Radiation Detection Robots and Mechanical Muscles
California researchers are developing a microscale actuator - which may have practical applications in mechanical muscles, the delivery of medications and microfluidics and radiation-detection robots. - 12/17/2012

Mitsubishi Unveils New Robot that can Withstand Enough Radiation to Clean Up Japan's Damaged Nuclear Power Plant
Mitsubishi is the latest company from Japan to come up with a robot that could clean up the Fukushima nuclear power plant - despite dangerously high levels of radiation. - 12/12/2012

UT Arlington Receives Robotics Grant
University of Texas at Arlington associate professor of electrical engineering, Dan Popa, has been announced as a lead investigator for a joint effort for the advancement of robots and robotics. This project will further improve prosthetics and the a… - 12/10/2012

Grishin Robotics Invests $250K in RobotAppStore
The new startup, RobotAppStore is an online marketplace for apps pertaining to robotics, and now the company has raised enough money to get its business off the ground. Grishin Robotics, an investment group dedicated to funding businesses dealing wit… - 12/10/2012

Traffic Control 'Robocops' to Help Intersection Control for Driverless Cars
When most people think "Robocop", they think of the hero of Detroit, clumping around making law-enforcement pronouncements in a forceful monotone backed up by a gun with a seemingly bottomless magazine. But when it comes to driverless cars, the term … - 12/10/2012

Is That Opportunity Knocking? Know for Sure with DoorBot
One of the perks of modern technology is the ability to screen calls. If you have caller ID on your smartphone or landline, you can have a pretty good idea who's calling you most of the time, and you can use your own judgment as to whether or not you… - 12/06/2012

Interconnected Micro-Bots Can be Programmed into Infinite Number of Shapes and Forms
With the availability of miniscule motors, actuators, batteries and energy harvesting technologies, the use of miniature robotics, or microbotics, has grown worldwide. Capable of handling micrometer scale objects, micro-robots - also known as micro-b… - 12/06/2012

'Papa Mau' Aquatic Robot Breaks Record with Cross-Pacific Ocean Journey
Liquid Robotics has made robotic vehicles before, but this time the company has really outdone itself: one of its Wave Glider data-collecting robots, Papa Mau, just finished an epic year-long journey across the Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco to Au… - 12/06/2012

MIT Creates Transforming Robots That Are More than Meets the Eye
In science fiction and, there is a common trope: the shape shifter. Whether it is the alien Skrull race in Marvel comics that can take any form and infiltrate our government, or the magical polyjuice potion in the Harry Potter universe that allows ch… - 12/04/2012

Lonely? Try a Robot Buddy!
One of the most popular tropes in science fiction stories is the robot sidekick. Whether it is R2D2 keeping Luke company in the swamps of Dagobah, or Scott Trakker and T-Bob from the MASK cartoon, or DC Comics' Booster Gold and his trusty companion S… - 12/04/2012

Want to Own Your Own Giant Robotic Suit?
If you are a man or woman of a certain age, whether you hail from Japan or the United States, chances are, your childhood was filled with giant robots. - 12/03/2012

Silicon Valley Company Brings Personal Household Robot Closer to Reality
If you watched The Jetsons as a child, chances are, you've been waiting for your personal household robot for decades. Today, you may be a little closer to that goal, though it may not look much like Rosie the Maid from the cartoon! - 12/03/2012

Finally! A Serious Scientific Study of the Robot Apocalypse
It's so much a part of the sci-fi landscape, it's almost become a cliche. It's seen in movies from The Terminator to The Matrix to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Of course, I am talking about the rise of artificial intelligence and the threat of the robot ap… - 11/27/2012

Robots Developed to Strip Paint from Aircrafts Using Laser System
A new project is underway to build six autonomous mobile robots equipped with a laser coating remover for team deployment to remove paint and other coatings from aircraft at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah. - 11/27/2012

High School Robotics Team, the W.A.R.Lords Receives Sponsorship from EnvironmentalLights.com
Fundraising is one of the most essential parts of FIRST Robotics championship, where teams are required to build up a robot within a six-week time period. Each team is required to first apply for grants and raise the money to build their robot. Spons… - 11/26/2012

Disney Making Interactive Robots You Can Play Catch With
When we talk about advances in the robotics industry, we tend to focus on robotics that are technical in nature and help to make our jobs easier. There is a chapter of the robotics industry, however, focused exclusively on a more entertainment-based … - 11/26/2012

ALDEBARAN Robotics Lands Over 200 NAO Robots at Schools Worldwide
While some may believe that robots will spell the end of all humanity, others believe they have some impressive possibility when it comes to education. To that end, ALDEBARAN Robotics is bringing over 200 of their NAO robots to secondary schools arou… - 11/26/2012

A 'Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots' Show is Coming to Your TV
Many people mocked the Battleship movie that came out not long ago. After all, how could anyone make an interesting film based on a game where people yell out grid coordinates and say cheesy things like "You sank my battleship!"? But, while that movi… - 11/20/2012

This Scanning Robot Can Outpace Any Speed Reader
The DC Comics superhero known as the Flash is famous for being able to run really, really, fast. But his super speed powers extend beyond footraces. He can vibrate through solid objects and travel to other dimensions and through time. But in addition… - 11/19/2012

BGU Rises to DARPA Robotics Challenge to Develop Disaster Response Robot
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Ben-Gurion University's team "Robil" is currently developing a disaster-response-themed robot, as part of a challenge (and significant grant) issued to the university by DARPA Robotics. - 11/09/2012

Universal Robotics Develops Technology Allowing Machines to Learn Like Humans
In 2001, a group of researchers at Vanderbilt teamed with NASA in a project designed to create software aimed at building robotic machines which learn how to function in a similar way to humans. - 11/07/2012

Darmstadt University is One Swing Away from Developing a Complex Robot
Robotics, the technology behind creating, developing and operating robots, has been around for years. The original concept planned for the machines to take over for humans in dangerous situations. As technology advanced, so did robotics. Robots are n… - 11/06/2012

Want Your Robot to Jump Higher with Less Energy? Just Split the Jump into Two Parts, Researchers Find
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a simple technique to build robots that save energy - have them jump. The key is dividing the jump into two parts, which the researchers call a "stutter jump." - 11/06/2012

Robotics Industries Association Achieves Milestone for Certified Robot Integrator Designation Program
North American-based robotics new orders are up 20 percent, according to new statistics released by Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's largest trade group. The growth of robots is aligned with RIA's certified robot integrator design… - 11/06/2012

Trimble Launches Robotic Total Station for Construction Industry
Robots are increasingly becoming more beneficial to our everyday lives. From military to healthcare and financial, robotics is making an impact in all different industries. Most construction jobs are repetitious, labor-intensive and dangerous - perfe… - 11/06/2012

Autonomous Marine Robot Keeps Working during Hurricane Sandy to Report Key Weather Data in Atlantic Ocean
Liquid Robotics' Mercury, an autonomous marine robot, proved it was really tough last week after surviving the intense weather in the Atlantic Ocean from Hurricane Sandy. - 11/06/2012

Robots are Coming for a Piece of Your Lawn
With robots rapidly taking over parts of not only the economy but our lives as a whole, it's not surprising to see them drift into unexpected areas as well. While robots are assembling products, helping the elderly and even cleaning houses, there's a… - 11/01/2012

In Robot Use, US Seconds Japan According to Robotic Industries Association
According to new statistics released by Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's trade group, with new orders up 20 percent, North American based robotics companies are in the midst of another strong year. In the first nine months, a tota… - 11/01/2012

Humanoid Robots to Boldly Go Where Humans Can't
With Hurricane Sandy dissolving, it's not surprising that some are taking a look at uses of technology to aid in not only disaster prevention, but disaster recovery. Drexel University is one such group looking to create a line of robots that can resp… - 10/31/2012

Man with a Smart Leg to Climb Chicago's Willis Tower
After losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident, Zac Vawter signed up to become a research subject. Considering himself a test pilot, the 31-year-old software engineer is currently helping to test a trailblazing prosthetic leg, controlled by his … - 10/31/2012

Adept Technology Unveils SmartController EX
For over 25 years, Adept has been providing the development of innovative and powerful industrial robots for high-speed, precision manufacturing, packaging, and factory automation. The company provides various industrial robots, including Cobra SCARA… - 10/29/2012

DARPA Robotics Challenge Begins, Key Teams Announced as Registration Continues
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC) has begun and key teams have been announced. Other tracks continue to be open for registration for participants. - 10/25/2012

The DRC Program Exploits Humanoid Robot Technology
The possibility of robots being able to act and look somewhat like humans have already developed in laboratories. There are various types of robots that exist today that have been put to work in human environments and have used human tools to perform… - 10/25/2012

Do the Robot, Gangnam Style: Famous YouTube Clip Inspires Trait in Navy Robot
The best thing about viral videos is that they know no bounds in what they can give birth to. That couldn't be more true with Psy's "Gangnam Style" YouTube video, which inspired a little more than a copycat video by some students in Virginia. - 10/24/2012

Robots Can Milk Cows, Too
Ann Landers once said, "I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is." Now, you don't even have to be a human being. - 10/23/2012

Energid and Robai to Demo Small-Footprint Robot Arm
Robot companies are set to discuss their methods for handling disruptive technologies from the world of research robotics and apply them to new market opportunities during the RoboBusiness 2012 Leadership Summit, scheduled for October 22-24, 2012 at … - 10/19/2012

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Pushing FTC to Loosen Rules on Robocalling to Cell Phones
Automated outbound telephone calling, also known as "robocalling," has gotten out of hand in the U.S. Complaints of illegal calling on both cell phones and to numbers on the federal do-not-call registry are soaring, and both the Federal Trade Commiss… - 10/18/2012

New Robot Autom Wants to Help You with Your Diet
The health and fitness world seems to have embraced technology like few other sectors of our offline life have managed to do. It seems like every week a new program or device hits the market that is designed to help us watch our weight or drop a few … - 10/18/2012

Robot Submarine to Investigate BP Oil Spill Aftermath
In 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing the largest oil spill in history. Now, two years later, a robotic submarine has been dispatched to investigate a mysterious oil sheen on the surface of the wate… - 10/16/2012

Romo: Your Tiny, Self-Learning Personal Robot
In science fiction, it seems that just about everybody has a personal robot assistant. Wether it's Luke Skywalker and his astromech pal R2-D2, George Jetson and his robot maid Rosie, or Buck Rogers and his sidekick Twiki, little robot buddies seem to… - 10/16/2012

Robotic IV Automation System Keeps Hospitals Clean
Since its introduction in 2008, the Robotic IV Automation (RIVA) system has prepped more than 1 million doses for patients globally. RIVA is a robotic device manufactured by Intelligent Hospital Systems, used to prepare medications for syringes and f… - 10/15/2012

Carnegie Mellon University Lunar Rover Developed to Hunt Ice
Ever since the events surrounding the Mars rover landing, interest in outer space has seen something of a renaissance in recent weeks, and joining the fray just last Monday morning was the Polaris robot from Carnegie Mellon University, which was set … - 10/09/2012

Fire-Fighting Robotic Mini-Tank Helps Decrease Risk
One thing that's universally known about fighting fires, especially wildfires, is that it's not always a simple matter to get the water to the fire in sufficient amounts or with sufficient speed to suppress a fire effectively. - 10/09/2012

Underwater Docking Stations Developed for Robots to Recharge
Using robots for undersea exploration is nothing new, but as such technology is becoming more mainstream, it's starting to pose a significant problem: the robots are running out their batteries too quickly. - 10/08/2012

Robotic-Autonomous Machine Technology Now Being Developed at University of Connecticut for Sea & Air Operations
The attention of much of the state of Connecticut this weekend will be focused on whether UConn defeats its rival Rutgers in football - but there's a winning proposal now being developed by robotics-engineering researchers at the University of Connec… - 10/05/2012

Thomas County Central Establishes Robotic Program
Thomas County Central High School has recently launched a robotics program with the help of a grant funded by the LEGO Foundation. - 10/04/2012

Mazor Robotics Finalizes Financing Agreement for $15 Million
Mazor Robotics Ltd., a developer of innovative surgical robots and complementary products, recently announced that it had finalized the financing agreement it had entered with investors led by Oracle Investment Management on August 12, 2012. - 10/04/2012

Bee Brains Used in Research to Develop Flying Robots
Researchers at the University of Sussex and the University of Sheffield in England are teaming up in an attempt to create an autonomous flying robot based on their studies of the brains of honey bees. - 10/03/2012

Langone's Robotic Surgery Center Winds Up its Second Year of Educating Surgeons
New York University's Langone Medical Center has announced that The Robotic Surgery Center has just completed its second year offering monthly robotic surgery education sessions for minimally invasive robotic procedures. - 10/02/2012

Robotic Traffic Lights to Replace Officers for Traffic-Control in Construction Areas
Carnegie Melon University has been developing special traffic lights for Pittsburgh in a project called the Traffic21 Initiative. The project proposes an alternative to the standard traffic light, which itself has been replaced in Pittsburgh's downto… - 10/01/2012

The Robots are Coming
Although the following statement by Rod Brooks, cofounder and CTO of robotics company iRobot and director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory was made in 2007, it holds truer today because of the advancement in robotics… - 09/27/2012

Robotic Mars Missions May Use Astronauts After All, Says NASA Report
While there were those that thought that robots may well have phased out the need for human astronauts to go into space, a recent report from NASA suggests that astronauts may not need to be so concerned for their jobs after all. In fact, the reports… - 09/26/2012

The Complete RoboPlay Guide to Everything
The National Science Foundation awarded two new grants totaling $1.25 million to the University of California Davis to support studies of the impact of robotics in teaching science, technology, engineering and math to students from elementary to high… - 09/26/2012

Interactions Corporation Named the 2012 MassTLC Innovative Technology of the Year in Robotics
Interactions Corporation, a firm that enables companies to more effectively interact with their customers, has recently won the 2012 MassTLC Innovative Technology of the Year in Robotics award for its Virtual Assistant services. - 09/21/2012

QUAN Predicts Big Future for Small Robots
All over the world, experts believe that the robotics sector is set for a major breakout in the next year or two. Since the worldwide recession hit in 2008, the industry has experienced relatively flat growth. The market has not yet responded to the … - 09/20/2012

NASA Selects Eight Robotics Projects for Funding
NASA has selected eight robotics projects for funding - which also increase the chances that Americans will be able to explore Mars in some 23 years. - 09/20/2012

Evolution Robotics Becomes Part of the iRobot Family in a $74 million Purchase
How a product is introduced is very critical regarding its acceptance by the public. When the Roomba came into the market it seemed like a benign tool everyone could have in their home to perform a menial chore. It was accepted and the negative conno… - 09/19/2012

Kettering University Unveils First Ever Robot Basketball Tournament
Robot Basketball is a phrase that comes with a sense of awesomeness, as the concept is enjoyable at highest levels of fun and entertainment. The game seems straight out of a sci-fi book. But with modern robotics technology, Robot Basketball is now a … - 09/19/2012

It's Robots vs. Humans with the Future of Space Travel on the Line
When I was in college at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, I worked at a catering company. One of the biggest thrills I had in my life came when I was working a party at the National Air and Space Museum. I had the opportunity to cl… - 09/17/2012

Soft Robotics with Sensitive Tactile Touch from Harvard's Whitesides Research Group
Development in haptic technology and neural interfaces for people suffering from paralysis or loss of a limb has improved significantly in the last decade. Research in robotics, neurology, computer software and hardware is resulting in applicable tec… - 09/14/2012

Liquid Robotics Showing off what Waterbound Robots can do
The world of robotics is always changing as developers and scientists come up with different ways in which the most advance robots can help us go about our everyday lives. The best robotics are the ones that actually make sure more advanced technique… - 09/12/2012

New Robotics Could Change the Way Marine Corps Operate
Researchers for the Marine Corps have recently happened upon a new facet of technology that is helping them keep troopers safer on the job. Robotics has come to play an unexpectedly key role in the ongoing development of the Marine's everyday tasks. - 09/12/2012

What Robots Can Teach Us about Trust
We can imagine robots teaching us lots of things. We can picture robotic teachers wandering the aisles of a classroom, instructing students on topics like history, engineering or mathematics. We can also probably imagine robotic driving instructors o… - 09/11/2012

Let a Robotic DJ Handle the Music at Your Next Party!
Let's face it, when you are hosting a party, you have so many different worries on your plate: what food to serve, whether your home is clean, how to decorate, and which of your boisterous friends to invite. The last thing most people want to worry a… - 09/11/2012

DARPA's Cheetah Robot Living up to its Name with Superior Speed
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was established to help keep the technological superiority of the U.S. military on top. The latest effort is between DARPA and Boston Dynamics in the creation of "Cheetah." - 09/11/2012

USRobotics Unveils New USRobotics 56K USB Soft Modem
USRobotics, a premier provider of reliable, easy-to-use, high-performance dial-up modems for the home and home-office, recently introduced the new USRobotics 56K USB Soft Modem. The compact USB modem is ideal for mobile users and point-of-sale sol… - 09/10/2012

My Picks for the Robot Hall of Fame
The Robot Hall of Fame, established in 2003 at Carnegie Melon University, is asking the public to vote for the next inductees that will be honored alongside other robotic icons like R2-D2 and C-3PO. But you don't have to be a Jedi Master to be a judg… - 09/04/2012

Robots to Save Coral Reefs Off of Scotland
A team of intelligent robots are being developed in Scotland to save some of the nation's precious coral reefs. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are making what are being called "coralbots" which will be able to re-assemble damaged coral pieces.… - 08/31/2012

Neural Interface for Controlled Exoskeleton Research Receives $1 Million from the Federal Robotics Initiative
The Paralympics are underway in London 2012 and the event more than anything demonstrates the power of determination of all the participants. It is not easy getting around if you have a disability and whether it is an injury or birth defect scientist… - 08/30/2012

Solar-Powered Robot Tells us Hurricane Isaac's Whereabouts
Floating in the ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico is a courageous little piece of equipment that is telling us rather important information about Hurricane Isaac. Known as Alex by his keepers at the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Admini… - 08/28/2012

Hurricane Isaac vs. Alex the Robot
By now, we all know about Hurricane Isaac, which has threatened to wreak havoc on the lives of both politicians and real people. While the Republican National Convention now seems to be outside of the path of the storm, there is a very real chance th… - 08/28/2012

The Robotic Revolution Will Begin at Home
We have all seen depictions of robots in popular culture, ranging from the robotic apocalypse of The Matrix or The Terminator, to the sunnier prognostication of The Jetsons, which depicts a sweet, robotic maid by the name of Rosie. Which of these ver… - 08/28/2012

Honda Releases Details of its European Robotic Lawn Mower
Coming next year, a new item in the world of consumers' robotics will be available. At first only in Europe, a new robotic lawn mower will hit the market, called Miimo. This system will be a self-controlled, sensor-activated equipped robotic lawn mow… - 08/22/2012

Meet Double, Your Remote Robotic Video Conference 'Body Double'
If you regret the lack of affordable robotics in your life and you're an iPad enthusiast, you may be in luck. Double Robotics, a Mountain View, California-based company, is preparing to launch a new invention called "Double," which is essentially an … - 08/21/2012

The RobotAppStore.com Debuts Robot Encyclopedia Robopedia
The global personal and service robots' population grew by tenfold in the past four years and is expected to grow exponentially. A recent study by ABI Research has indicated that the personal robotics market will grow to more than $19 billion in five… - 08/20/2012

Youth-Oriented Robotics Clubs, Competitions Get Students Interested in Education
It seems as though robotics is the next big thing in education, if the recent trend of youth-oriented robotics competitions is anything to go by. For example, the Ashesi Robotics Experience (ARX), which took place last week at Ghana's Ashesi Universi… - 08/16/2012

Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Software Update for Driving and Use of its Robotic Arm
Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. NASA officials decided to spend Curiosity's first weekend on Mars to push a software update that would give the rover pointers on how to drive on Mars. These updates will prepare it for tasks it will be perform… - 08/14/2012

Liquid Robotics form Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Liquid Robotics has announced the formation of its new wholly owned subsidiary, Liquid Robotics Federal, LLC. An ocean data services provider, Liquid Robotics is the creator of Wave Glider, the first wave-powered, autonomous marine robot. - 08/13/2012

Quantum to Collaborate with Robotics Innovators to Develop the Industry
Quantum International announced plans to enter into partnerships with global robotics developers. The company plans to enter into joint ventures and in some cases look for acquisition also. - 08/09/2012

iPad- Controlled Robots Likely to be Found Underwater
A recent report in the Technology Review about how barcode symbols on tablet computers could be used to control underwater robots, propelled Apple's (already popular) iPad further into the limelight and brought emerging robotic companies into the pub… - 08/07/2012

cRops Harvester Robots May Hit Fields Soon
While robots are steadily making appearances in the developments of more and more industries - from healthcare to law enforcement - one sector most thought they would have a hard time penetrating was agriculture. - 08/06/2012

Human 'Curiosity' Leads to Amazing Landing on Mars, Speaks Volumes for Robotic Spaceflight
A U.S.-made vehicle - about the size of a car - sits in a deep canyon on the surface of Mars Monday after robotic spaceflight proved how technology and human expertise can outmaneuver likely errors that could have been fatal to the complex mission. … - 08/06/2012

The Key to Staying in the Frame is the Robot, Botiful
If you classify yourself as someone who succeeds at the dreaded task of having to multitask, some of you might hit an obstacle when you have a million things to do while trying to have a conversation over Skype. The obstacle that emerges is trying to… - 08/02/2012

Robots Gaining Ground in Aerospace Applications
The issue of robots doing jobs formerly done by humans is a sticky one of politics, emotion, and sheer economics. Robots have been seen in a variety of formerly exclusively human endeavors, but perhaps the newest field to see robots gaining ground is… - 08/01/2012

Proteus - A Quantum Leap in Robotic Technology?
Gone are the days when robotics were confined to the surgical or manufacturing sectors, for technology innovators are on a roll these days with robots being assigned new roles that could make them invaluable allies in the fight against terror. - 08/01/2012

Quantum Robotics Says Robotics May Be the Next Big Thing for Mobile
With the well-known rise of mobile and smartphone use over the last couple of years - and some experts forecasting the smartphone market to reach $150 billion by 2014 - other industries are looking for ways to leverage this popular technology to thei… - 07/31/2012

Helukabel Acquires Robotec Systems
Just yesterday, Helukabel, a German firm with a headquarters location in Elgin, Illinois, acquired Kamp-Linfort, Germany's Robotec Systems. As a result, Robotec Systems is now a fully-owned subsidiary of Helukabel, and Helukabel's robotics business a… - 07/30/2012

Quantum Wants Space-Age Technology Down to Earth
In order to offer the next generation advanced robotic devices, Poland is all set to join the European Space Agency (ESA), Europe's gateway to space. Poland is in the process of becoming ESA's 20th member state. - 07/25/2012

QUAN Targets Developers of iPhone and iPad Robots
With their advanced combination of sensors, processing power, display and network connectivity, Apple smartphones and tablets provide everything required to work as compact, powerful robotic systems. The technology is already promoting new innovation… - 07/25/2012

RMT Robotics Celebrates Seven Years of Success with ADAM Autonomous Mobile Robot
RMT Robotics, a manufacturer and integrator of ADAM autonomous mobile robot (AMR), is celebrating seven years of success in tire handling solution. - 07/24/2012

Kid's Robotics Startup Raised $3 Million
When it comes to kids and science if you want to make it stick, then you are going to have to make it interesting. When it comes to making science cool there is one thing that will always keep the kids coming back for more, and that is robots. Few th… - 07/24/2012

RMT Robotics Recruits New Customer Care Manager
RMT Robotics, a Cimcorp Oy company, announced the appointment of Andrew Bell as its new customer care manager. RMT Robotics is engaged in manufacturing and integrating turnkey robotic gantry-based order fulfillment and tire handling solutions for … - 07/24/2012

Police Successfully Use Robot at Crime Scene in Colorado as More Applications for Robotics Being Developed
Robots are one of the key technologies for the present and are even more promising for the future. To see how robots can be used, one needs to look no further than the robot which successfully gained entry into the apartment of the suspect in the rec… - 07/23/2012

Quantum Eyes Chile for Business Expansion
In order to achieve ambitious organization growth, companies are eyeing overseas expansion. One such company is an emerging robotics company Quantum International Corp. Quantum is looking for exciting new business opportunities in growing economic po… - 07/20/2012

iRobot Rumors Continue
Quantum International Corp, one of the companies on the bleeding edge of robotics development, has been hinting at a cooperation with Apple in research and development. - 07/19/2012

Provision for Robotics Debuts to Provide Unbiased RFQ Consultation to the Manufacturers Seeking Affordable Automation
A new automation consulting firm, Provision for Robotics takes off with an aim of providing small manufacturers with suitable automation solutions. - 07/19/2012

New Algorithm Designed to Improve Underwater Robots
Franz Hover, the Finmecanica Center Development assistant professor in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, began working with a graduate student, Brendan Englot, on developing more sophisticated robots. Together, the two designed algorithms t… - 07/17/2012

Global Snake Robot Market to Reach $2.3B by 2018
Reportlinker.com today announced the availability of a new research report entitled, "Snake Robots: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018," which states that snake robot markets worldwide are likely to achieve "significant g… - 07/17/2012

Mazor Robotics Gets FDA Approval for Renaissance Technology in Brain Procedures
The deeper we get into the 21st century the more uses pop up for the advances the scientific community is making every day in the field of robotics. One of the leaders in the surgical robotics field, Mazor Robotics, just got the go-ahead from the FDA… - 07/17/2012

PCS Unveils Robotics Education Pack Version 2.0
PCS Edventures!.com, Inc., a provider of K-16 programs focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), is upgrading its Robotics Education Pack to version 2.0, featuring newly developed curriculums and software upgrades. This sign… - 07/17/2012

Getty Images Puts Robots and 3D into Olympic Frenzy
With the 2012 Summer Olympics set to kick off in London, it's obvious the Games will produce a whole lot of noteworthy images. They're likely to produce such a number, in fact, that Getty Images is already tooling up for the Summer Games with a varie… - 07/16/2012

Chinese Migrant Workers Find Themselves Up Against Robots
With the presidential election season already in full swing, the discussion of outsourcing jobs in the U.S. is well under way. But in China, a popular destination for outsourcing, Chinese workers are finding themselves under a gun familiar to America… - 07/16/2012

18th Century Robotic Dolls to be the Turn of the 21st Century
Originally designed by Swiss watchmaker, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, who lived in the 18th century, three particular automata dolls were made to improve the sales of watches among the nobility of Europe during that time period. However, thanks to the Swatch … - 07/10/2012

Skip Stones on a Peaceful Mountain Lake Via the Internet with Skippy the Robot
If you're sitting in an office or cubicle thinking about how you could use a few days or even just a few hours sitting by a peaceful mountain lake skipping flat stones, there is a robot willing to help you out. Somewhere near a peaceful mountain lake… - 07/10/2012

Mind-Controlled Robots Coming Sooner Than You Think
Science fiction movies are full of robots. There are robot servants and robot soldiers. There are even robot avatars, like in the movie Surrogates. These are robotic bodies controlled over a great distance by human minds as human thoughts control eac… - 07/10/2012

Health Robotics' i.v.STATION Shows Evidence of Quality, Cost, and Speed
Health Robotics, a supplier of life- critical intravenous medication robots, announced that U.S. hospital pharmacies are increasingly adopting the offsite Batch Sterile Compounding Centers attempt to reduce the IVs price premiums. These are presently… - 07/05/2012

Dr. Vibot Smart Search Launched by Evader, Inc.
Evader, Inc. has successfully accomplished the merger with Dr. Vibot. Following the merger, Evader has launched "smart search" functionality for its robotics product lines. "Now our indoor and outdoor robots can identify missing objects," said Ell… - 07/03/2012

Are Robots the Future of Retail?
In recent decades, robots have completely transformed certain industries. From robot-assisted surgery, to assembly lines of robotic arms assembling automobiles faster and more efficiently than human workers, the revolution has impacted these industri… - 07/03/2012

Need an Actor, Soldier or Friend? There's a Robot for That!
In the world of science fiction, there are quite a few robots performing any number of functions. From Rosie the housekeeping robot on the Jetsons, to the protocol droid C-3PO, who is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication, the small and lar… - 07/03/2012

Innovation First Labs Announces Launch of High-tech Line of Robotic Toys in India
Innovation First International, developer of the HEXBUG product line and Micro Robotic Creatures, recently announced that it will be collaborating with Anacra Merchandise Pvt Ltd., over the launch of its high-tech line of robotic toys in India. Anacr… - 07/03/2012

Quantum Opens Negotiations with European Robotics Institute to Help Commercialize Robotics Technologies
Quantum International is putting in all possible efforts to become a leader in the next generation of robotics. To achieve this, the company is not leaving any stone unturned. In this direction, Quantum has recently announced that they plan to open n… - 07/02/2012

WANTED Analytics Research Finds High Demand for Robotic Skills
WANTED Analytics helps recruiting organizations make better decisions with real-time business intelligence on jobs, employers and talent, and recently published a research report stating that hiring demand for robotics skill sets has grown steadily o… - 06/28/2012

Our Smartphones Shouldn't Hurt Us, Says Eben Moglen
It may surprise some to know, but Isaac Asimov's classic tale of science fiction, I, Robot, is about to become officially obsolete. Asimov's tales of robotics gave us what is commonly referred to as the Three Laws of Robotics, a system so basic, so u… - 06/26/2012

New Study Finds the Brain Organizes Objects by Size, Helping Robots to Do It Too
We've always known size matters. But not exactly in the brain, that is until now. - 06/22/2012

Early Teens Learn Underwater Robotics in Special Summer Program
For students entering grades seven through nine in the Lower Kuskokwim School District, a special program has opened up called SeaPerch, geared toward teaching a variety of skills executed under water. The SeaPerch program looks to teach the young… - 06/21/2012

Rethink Robotics Raises $30M from Investors as New Version of Robot Causes Businesses to Rethink Old Assumptions
Rethink Robotics, Inc. has not only changed its name from Heartland Robotics; it's gotten some serious "change" for its plans after raising $30 million from investors. Sigma Partners led the recent Series C funding round. - 06/20/2012

The iRobot Roomba 790 Comes with a Wireless Command Center
iRobot recently announced the latest update to its growing Roomba family. The newly launched Roomba 790 is no ordinary cleaning robot, according to iRobot, it happens to be their smartest robot to date. While the jury is still out on this claim, the … - 06/19/2012

iCub Robot Appears to Acquire Language Similar to Way Human Baby Learns: UK Study
When little human children start to speak they begin by babbling in gibberish and then learn to speak real words - often from the time they are between six and 14 months old. Could a humanoid robot be programmed to "learn" in a similar fashion? - 06/19/2012

Robot Fingers Bring Tactile Stimulus to a New Level
You may not think much about it when you finger skims a piece of fabric, picks up a smooth apple or touches the million pointed blades of grass in your front yard, but you are using one of the most advances tactile sensors in the world. - 06/19/2012

Russian Entrepreneur Launches Investment Company to Encourage Advancement in Robotics
Dmitry Grishin, co-founder of Russia's highly successful Internet company, Mail.Ru Group, announced the creation of a global investment company with the mission of advancing robotics technology adoption across the mass consumer markets. - 06/18/2012

Robotics High on Investment List for Russian Internet CEO
Dmitry Grishin, founder of Russia's mail.ru, believes that the time is right to invest in robotics technology, and help bring robots to the mass market. He believes in it so much that he recently announced the launch of a $25 million venture fund gea… - 06/15/2012

Joggobot or Joggo Not?
This is the question that the developers of the joggobot ask themselves on a daily basis. Joggobot has raised more questions than answers, not the least of which is what purpose - if any - would it serve on the market. The concept behind the robotic … - 06/14/2012

Lockheed Martin Announces $1.5 Million Gift to 4-H
4-H is a community of six million young people across America that are learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. The company's corporate and foundation partners assist 4-H to create advanced, relevant programs for young people to learn real-… - 06/14/2012

OHEA Introduces Bed of the Future
Oh, the things we can accomplish with technology today! Kids and adults alike will cheer for this one: Spanish furniture maker OHEA has come out with a bed that makes itself. Yes, we are definitely in the future now. - 06/12/2012

Robots as Help for the Elderly may Spur Development
Danish research into robotic technology can best be expressed by the Geminoid-DK, a robot that pushes the so-called "uncanny valley" phenomenon to its limits. But beyond the poster child for Danish robotics, recent research has gone on into a more mu… - 06/12/2012

GeckoSystems Adds Voice Control Feature to its Safepath Wheelchairs
GeckoSystems Intl. Corp., a provider of mobile service robots (MSR's) announced an enhancement to its SafePath wheelchair navigation solution with the integration of GeckoChat verbal interaction. - 06/12/2012

ReconRobotics' Throwbot XT: A New Robot with Video, Audio Reconnaissance Capabilities
The use of robots has transformed the defense industry, performing multiple missions for troops and public safety while saving lives of military men and public alike. ReconRobotics Inc., the company in tactical micro-robot systems, has introduced… - 06/11/2012

UC Berkeley Researchers Build Cockroach-like Robot
When most people see a cockroach, the first thing they would do is call an exterminator. For researchers at UC Berkeley, they'd build a robot that mimics the insect's impressive agility instead. - 06/11/2012

Evader Updates its Followers and the Market
In an update to its followers and the market, Evader has successfully re-domiciled to Wyoming from Nevada ahead of the anticipated mergers with a Robotics Company and a Visual ID Company. Evader noted it will update the Wyoming corporate info wit… - 06/07/2012

SparkFun's Fourth Autonomous Vehicle Competition Expected to Draw Over 700 Spectators
Boulder, Colorado-based electronics retailer, SparkFun Electronics announced that the fourth annual Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) will kick off on June 16, 2012. Free and open to spectators, the event is a celebration of ingenuity, inventivene… - 06/07/2012

Gumstix's TurtleCore Makes Building Robots Easy!
Robots are lot of fun and excellent educational gifts. To help robotics enthusiasts make robots cheaper and faster, Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of tiny computers-on-module (COM) and expansion boards for professional design engineers and hobby… - 06/07/2012

Juho Malmberg Named CEO of ZenRobotics Ltd
ZenRobotics Ltd recently confirmed that Juho Malmberg will join the company in the position of chief executive officer starting July 1, 2012. Malmberg was appointed by the board of directions at ZenRobotics Ltd. The company is a Finland- based startu… - 06/06/2012

SparkFun Set to Spark Creativity With Arduino-Compatible MiniBot
For those who live, eat and breathe electronics, MiniBot SparkFun Electronics' latest addition to its popular ProtoSnap line of products could well prove to be the entry to the exciting world of embedded electronics. - 06/05/2012

Quantum Explores the Money Behind Bots
Unless you spend a lot of time thinking about robots, then you probably do not know the name Quantum International Corp. For those of us without advance degrees in robotics or an obsession with the moment that some have dubbed the singularity, let's … - 06/05/2012

RobotShop Featured in PROFIT 200's Fastest-Growing Companies List
RobotShop, a global robot store for personal and professional robot technology, has proudly figured into the list of PROFIT 200's Fastest-Growing Companies in Canada. Coming in at number 63, RobotShop has shown a momentous growth of 843 percent i… - 06/05/2012

ReconRobotics Establishes International Headquarters in Switzerland
Three years ago, ReconRobotics Inc was mainly a U.S.- based company that was just starting to get its feet wet to expanding internationally. Fast forward, the company has just recently announced the opening of their international headquarters in Luga… - 06/04/2012

America's Top High Schools Join FIRST Robotics Competition
The Robotics Competition, organized by FIRST Robotics, has been extremely popular with schools. More than 50 percent of the 10 high schools that are featured in the U.S. News & World Report's 2012 National Rankings of Best High Schools have enrolled … - 06/04/2012

EMILY the Robot Lifeguard Looks to Hit Beaches This Summer
Hydronalix has started bringing out what was formerly just a concept item, specifically, the EMILY - EMergency Integrated Lifesaving lanyard - system, a kind of robotic lifeguard that makes saving drowning victims a simpler and much less dangerous ov… - 05/31/2012

PCS Robotics Programs Purchased by Family Focus, Inc.
PCS Edventures!.com, a prominent distributor of K-16 programs focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), announced that Family Focus Inc., a Chicago-based not-for-profit, has purchased PCS Robotics programs. PCS Robotics … - 05/30/2012

The Rowdy Robot Promoting tod with Gusto
The Rowdy Robot team's Kickstarter campaign for the tod (pronounced "toad") is going strong, and looks like their lofty goal of $100,000 may not be just a dream. The team is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to promoting the Kickstarter campaig… - 05/29/2012

A FIRST for Willmar: Minnesota FIRST Robotics Team Builds Basketball-Bot
The world is now one step closer to a level playing field between robots and humans. That might be an overstatement, but the Willmar FIRST Robotics team has developed a robot that can play basketball. - 05/29/2012

Robot Mimics Human Teaching Techniques to Improve Student Recall
Keeping students focused has always been a part of the struggle and the art of the teaching profession. Teachers are consistently expected to find new ways to combat the waning attention of their students, and the latest method has taken a turn towar… - 05/29/2012

Rise of the Machines: Global Robot Sales Set New Worldwide Record
Today brought with it news from the International Federation of Robotics that, despite the overall soft conditions faced by the entire world's economy, at least one section of business has a bright spot to offer: industrial robotics. The sector saw a… - 05/29/2012

QUAN Prepares to Drive Growth in Robotic Industry
Robots are no longer the prerogative of biochemists like Isaac Asimov. Robotics has taken center stage in the medical world and other industries with emerging robotics company, Quantum International Corp. (QUAN) aggressively positioning itself to tak… - 05/24/2012

Pollution Problems May be Caught Earlier by, Robot Fish?
Not all underwater pollution is easily detectable or even visible in our lakes and oceans, which leaves fish unprotected. Just two letters, B and P, can drum up countless horror stories and images of the fallout from mass ocean pollution, even two ye… - 05/23/2012

Ocean Robots Collect Huge Amount of Data During Final Stage of Global PacX Journey
Liquid Robotics, a developer of the first wave-powered, autonomous marine robot - Wave Glider, has launched the PacX Wave Gliders from the island of Hawaii on the last phase of a first-of-its-kind scientific expedition across the Pacific Ocean. I… - 05/23/2012

QUAN Looks to Shorten the Development Time in the Field of Robotics
Robots are not science fiction. Today, these futuristic tools help us with everything from microsurgery to bomb disposal to space exploration. The global market for robotics is forecast to reach $70 billion by 2025. Various companies are working with… - 05/22/2012

Asteroid Robot Imitates Spider for Space Research
There is nothing new about imitating nature for research in technology. An asteroid Robot is now imitating a spider with grabbing and sticky feet for research in space. This new robot, still in the experimentation stage, could one day soon climb t… - 05/21/2012

Rowdy Robot Reaches Funding Goal for TOD, Refreshes Contributor Incentives
Rowdy Robot, a tech startup, recently reached the $50,000 funding mark on fundraising website Kickstarter. The new company is developing a device called TOD, pronounced "toad," which aims to make people even more connected to the world around them us… - 05/21/2012

The Segway Just Became Yesterday's Personal Transporter
We find ourselves today in the middle of a revolution as Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Unveils a new kind of personal mobility device that will likely revolutionize how people move around offices and buildings. The UNI-CUB, powered by a lithium ion battery, … - 05/17/2012

Four Companies Announce They've Made the Cut for Robotic Industries Association (RIA) Certification
Motion Control Robotics, Inc. announces today they've earned the coveted "Certified Robot Integrator" from Robotic Industries Association. - 05/16/2012

Honda Robotics Showcases UNI-CUB at the Miraikan Museum
Do you like the idea of being tied to your seat and have the ability to move around freely with it doing all the hard work? How about being able to turn in a 360 degree motion by simply moving your weight around? Honda Robotics has just the machine f… - 05/15/2012

Willow Garage Introduces Open Source Robotics Foundation
To support use of open source software in robotics, Willow Garage has established The Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. Founded by members of the global robotics community; the OSRF is an independent, non-profit organization. Based in Menlo Park,… - 05/10/2012

Need a Stunt Double for School or Work? Call Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot
Sometimes you just don't feel like getting out of bed. Maybe it's a cold, or maybe you just want to pull a Ferris Bueller and spend the day doing other things. Soon, you may have the ability to send a buddy in your stead, thanks to your friendly neig… - 05/09/2012

Robot Vacuum Speaks Japanese, Dances and Watches the Dog
Conventional vacuuming sucks, literally and figuratively. It takes an unconventional vacuum like "Cocorobo," to make you wonder why you don't have nearly enough fun with your chores. - 05/08/2012

With Robotic Surgery On the Rise, Quantum On The Look-Out For JV Partners
Quantum International thinks the market for robots who perform surgery is so huge, it's preparing a list of possible targets for joint venture or acquisition that stand poised to capitalize on this new era of medical robotics, according to a company … - 05/02/2012

Motorola Solutions Foundation Continues to Extend Financial, Volunteer Support to FIRST Robotics Program
For more than two decades, The Motorola Solutions Foundation has been extending its support via financial grants and employee volunteers to the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics program. Continuing with that t… - 04/30/2012

18 4-H Robotics Teams Compete at FIRST Robotics Championship Finals
The National 4-H Council recently announced that 18 4-H Robotics teams participating in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Championship finals, currently underway at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. The … - 04/30/2012

DENSO Robotics Unveils New Facebook Page
It is no secret that Facebook continues to be the number one marketing tool for businesses. Given that the social-networking website has over 900 million active users, businesses of all sizes are swarming over to Facebook to connect to their prospect… - 04/25/2012

Thought-Controlled Telepresence Robot Gives Paralyzed Man Mobility Again
It's been the stuff of science fiction for years, specifically, the ability to download one's consciousness from a physical body and implant it into a much more durable-and in some cases much more mobile-body. While we've largely been unable to do an… - 04/24/2012

NYU-Poly Featured at the Upcoming 2nd USA Science and Engineering Festival
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen 16 research projects, one of which is an iPhone application that controls a robot, for its exhibit at the 2nd USA Science and Engineering Festival. The app is a project from the Mechanical and Aerospac… - 04/19/2012

DARPA Awards Robotics Challenge Contract to Open Source Robotics Foundation
Those who are fans of robots and advanced robotic challenges most likely know of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, run every year by the organization. Last week, they announced their Robotics Challenge for disaster robots, which is aimed at teams who don… - 04/19/2012

GeckoSystems Introduces Service Robot to Aid Japanese Elderly
GeckoSystems has recently been working on the release of their new CareBot personal assistance robot, which helps elderly in Japan with most of their daily tasks. Japan recently hit 47,756 in their population of elderly citizens 100 or older. - 04/18/2012

Too Many Robotics Jobs, Not Enough Skilled Workers
A recent report from WANTED analytics indicates more than 1,800 jobs for robotics workers were advertised during March, representing a 44-percent increase from one year ago and an 80-percent jump from two years ago. As more surgical and health-re… - 04/18/2012

Robots Can Replace Chinese Workers
With all of the controversy surrounding Foxconn, one of Apple's major suppliers in China, including several suicides by workers, Foxconn and other Chinese companies might do well to replace much of their labor force with robots, Klaus Zimmermann writ… - 04/17/2012

Students Prepare for VEX Robotics Championship
Now in its fifth year of running, the VEX Robotics Competition is the place where thousands of students from all around the globe will convene together to compete for the ultimate title of world champion. - 04/17/2012

For Robots, March Madness Extends Well into April
The NCAA doesn't have a robot league yet, but that hasn't stopped high school students from all over the world from pitting their robot basketball teams against one another. The prizes? Bragging rights and the chance to compete for a national title i… - 04/16/2012

QUAN Pursues Robotics Industry with Force
Quantum International, an emerging robotics innovation company, has its eye on several companies in the robotics technology industry, attempting to sign agreements for acquisitions and joint ventures over the next few weeks. Quantum recently performe… - 04/16/2012

Philips Selects Adept Technology Robotics to Manufacture High-Tech Shavers
Advanced robotics and automation solutions have played a major role in the industry's worldwide manufacturing and production practices. Adept Technology has announced its robotics and flexible feeding systems have been selected by Philips, a manu… - 04/13/2012

QUAN to Enter Global Robotics Industry
Quantum (QUAN) is set to change the global robotics industry by sharpening its focus on new initiatives in medicine - a flourishing business. The global robotics industry was valued by BCC Research at an estimated $2.1 billion in 2011, and is exp… - 04/11/2012

Telepresence Robot Users Get Information Source Online
Technology is going mobile, literally. Still in the early stages, telepresence robots offer some major advantages apart for the futuristic designs and cool factor. These robots have become useful in businesses, hospitals and schools. Telebots are … - 04/10/2012

Adept Technology to Present Advanced Robotics Technology at 3rd Annual National Robotics Week
Adept Technology, Inc. recently announced that it will be participating in this year's third annual National Robotics Week which is scheduled to be held from April 9 - 17th. The company, which delivers cutting-edge intelligent robots and autonomous m… - 04/10/2012

Sushi Robots Nearly Break World Record
Every time you are out for sushi with friends, the last thing you are probably thinking about is who made the tasty treats on your plate. In the past decade, sushi restaurants are the rave, even though it's always been considered a traditional Japane… - 04/10/2012

Stanford University Hosts 'Robot Block Party' This Week
As part of the third annual National Robotics Week, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School will be hosting a "Robot Block Party" in the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab at Stanford University campus, from 1 - 6 p.m. PDT, on Ap… - 04/10/2012

National Robotics Week Kicks Off April 7
In an effort to get students ramped up about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), National Robotics Week kicks off on April 7 and will have a myriad of events going on across the nation in all 50 states. - 04/04/2012

Three-Team Alliance Wins FIRST Robotics Competition Northeast Utilities Connecticut Regional
After an intense six-week effort at designing and building a robot that plays basketball in the field, an alliance of three student-teams from Connecticut and New York bagged the first prize in the FIRST Robotics Competition Northeast Utilities Conne… - 04/03/2012

KUKA Robotics Corp. to Reveal KR QUANTEC Robots at NPE 2012
KUKA Robotics just announced that it will bring in its KR QUANTEC K shelf-mounted robot line into North American soil starting with its QUANTEC KR 120 R3900 Ultra. This new robot weighs about 1221 kg, reaches over 3.9 meters (about 12.8 feet), and ca… - 04/02/2012

Teens Shine at 2012 FIRST Robotics Colorado Regional Competition
Students from Colorado and Mexico were offered a unique chance to participate in the 2012 FIRST Robotics Colorado Regional Competition, cosponsored by the Gates Corporation. The intense six weeks program, which began in January, culminated on March 2… - 04/02/2012

Lecture at NASA Will Discuss At-sea Bots
Ocean research operations are about to transform, at least that is what Bill Vass, CEO of Liquid Robotics thinks. Vass will lecture at NASA's Langley Research Center on Tuesday, April 3, and will discuss how the landscape of robotics is changing - qu… - 04/02/2012

KUKA Robotics Corporation to Unveil KR QUANTEC Shelf-mount Series of Robots
KUKA Robotics officials have confirmed their participation at NPE taking place from April 2nd - 5th, 2012. The company is planning to debut their new KR QUANTEC Shelf-mount Series of Robots in this event. - 04/02/2012

New Wireless Robot from Freescale Can Teach Sensor Programming
The Freescale Tower System mechatronics robot and board has gone through a number of significant enhancements according to a recent announcement from Freescale Semiconductor. The bipedal robot and development board enables designers to write software… - 03/30/2012

Waterford's Robotics Team Wins a Slot at the Robotics World Championship
In just three years since its inception, the Robotics Team at Waterford High School in Utah managed to win the 2012 Utah regional FIRST Robotic's Competition. With its alliances, the Prototype X and the Team Plasma, Waterford managed to lift the mult… - 03/28/2012

Wii + Smartphone = Flying Machine?
A man from the Netherlands recently took to the air in his homemade bird-like flying machine. Jamo Smeets, a mechanical engineer, designed wings over the course of a year with the help of friends, and documented the entire process, dubbed the Human B… - 03/21/2012

New TCP/IP Book and Example Projects Released By Micrium and TI
Micrium and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) have collaborated to create a new book that examines the uC/TCP-IP(TM) network stack as well as TI's innovative Stellaris EVALBOT robotic evaluation platform. Christian Legare, the vice president of Mic… - 03/19/2012

NASA Teams with GM to Build Robotic Gloves for Human Use
This special robotic glove known as, K-glove or Robo-Glove was jointly introduced by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and General Motors in order to improve the working conditions of the astronauts and autoworkers. - 03/16/2012

BP to Fund Research Grant Component of PacX Project
Liquid Robotics sent four unmanned, data-collecting robots called Wave Gliders on a one-year research expedition through the Pacific Ocean in 2011. The program is called PacX. BP will fund a research grant for those with the best ideas on how to appl… - 03/16/2012

Mazor Robotics Signs Distribution Agreement With Cicel Science & Technology Co., Ltd
A new distribution agreement between Mazor Robotics Ltd and Cicel Science & Technology Ltd., a major source of advanced medical devices in China, will enable Mazor Robotics to drive the distribution and promotion of its Renaissance system in Chinese … - 03/16/2012

Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders Break World Record
Liquid Robotics recently announced that its PacX Challenge Wave Gliders have set a new world record for distance traveled by an unmanned wave powered vehicle. The Gliders, launched in 2008, operate a platform which supports a wide variety of senso… - 03/16/2012

Wave Glider Robots Set Nautical Record
As the world of technology marches on, we are seeing more and more involvement from robots. Of course, since the dawn of the science fiction genre, people have been expecting robots to take over certain tasks we have been performing ourselves. Still,… - 03/15/2012

The iRobot Scooba 390 Now Available in the United States
iRobot today announced a new addition to its critically acclaimed Scooba Floor Washing Robot Series. The robotic technology-based company unveiled the new iRobot Scooba 390, the much-anticipated successor to the Scooba 380. Like its predecessor, the … - 03/15/2012

Not Even Robots Can Get Away from March Madness
The fever of March Madness has spread to the world of robots. In Los Angeles, robots are gearing up for their own version of the tournament. - 03/15/2012

Coming Soon: Our New Robot Overlords?
While you wouldn't exactly expect the South By Southwest conference to play host to serious discussions about the grander fate of man and his machines, that's just what happened when a panel of robotics experts took the stage to discuss whether or no… - 03/15/2012

HDT Global to unveil MK2 Robotic Arm at Conference
Ohio-based HDT Global is known for its groundbreaking developments in the field of mobile military and emergency response solutions. The company recently announced its plan to unveil the MK2 robotic arm systems at the Ground Robotics Capabilities Con… - 03/14/2012

Dextre, The Robotic Handyman Demonstrates Precision Aboard The International Space Station (ISS)
A successful precision experiment was successfully performed on board the International Space Station by the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman called Dextre. The experiments which took place from March 7-9 included a Robotic Refueling Mission … - 03/13/2012

RRC Robotics Submarina Buys Two HD ROVs from Schilling Robotics
Brazilian company RRC Robotics Submarina has commissioned Schilling Robotics for the construction of two submersible, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). They are rated for a submersion depth for up to 3,000 meters, and contain 150-horse power. Thus f… - 03/09/2012

Three -Team Alliance from Grand Blanc, Auburn Hills and Lansing Named Winner in Kettering University FIRST Robotics District Competition
Kettering University, a STEM education center, has revealed the names of the winners of FIRST Robotics District Competition, one of 10 district robotics contests in Michigan this year. After winning the title, the winning team is going to represent t… - 03/09/2012

Fastest Robot Mimics Cheetah
Quadruped robots are not normally known for their speed, however the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has broken a new record with a robot that goes pretty fast. - 03/06/2012

Energid Technologies Releases Actin Software Toolkit Version 3.0
The Actin Toolkit accepts the notion that large, fielded control systems have transcended from logically encapsulated equations found in textbooks and academic papers and the toolkit organizes control system, the robust extension, and all supporting … - 03/06/2012

Hopefuls Flock to VW Headquarters to Be Schooled in Robotics
Deutsche Messe, the organization behind the infamous CeBIT show runs a year-round academy that teaches students the way of the robot. The Robotation Academy is responsible for educating others that -- believe it or not -- robots can be cheap. - 03/05/2012

Ologic AMP Robot Holds Your Cup, Plays Your Music
Ologic began as an outsourced research and development company for consumer electronics and toy products with a focus on robotics. Its recent product launch is the AMP-Automated Music Personality. - 03/02/2012

Aerial Robotics Takes Flight with Hand-Sized Machines
Over the years, scientists have made significant strides to advance robotics technology. Vijay Kumar, the Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and former head o… - 03/02/2012

Robot Basketball: The Latest Craze in Extracurricular Activities
FIRST's robot basketball competition (FRC), which the foundation describes as, "The Varsity Game for the Mind," is an event that has been popping up in local news across the U.S. Local reports indicate how high school students from various districts … - 02/23/2012

Robotic Insects Are Now Created Much Faster by New Methods Discovered at Harvard
There's an upgraded method that researchers at Harvard's Microrobotics Lab are using for producing robotic insects which may lead to many more practical applications. - 02/23/2012

Robotics, 3-D Technology Bring Dinosaur Replicas to Life
The latest in robotics and 3-D technology is now being used by researchers at Drexel University to bring dinosaurs back to life via the virtual world. - 02/23/2012

iRobot Secures Its 100th United States Patent for Robotic 'Retrotraverse' Technology
iRobot Corp has announced that the company has secured its 100th United States patent for robotic "retrotraverse" technology. - 02/23/2012

Microchip Supports Arizona Science and Technology Festival
Microchip Technology has announced its support for the Arizona Science and Technology Festival that aims to excite and inform Arizonans how science, technology and innovation are driving the future of the state. - 02/16/2012

Manitoba Shoots and Scores as Group Completes First Hockey Playing Robot
Meet Canada's newest most valuable hockey player: Jennifer, a hockey-playing robot. - 02/16/2012

Subsea 7 Purchases Two HD ROV Systems from Schilling Robotics
Subsea 7 has purchased two HD ROV systems from Schilling Robotics, which specializes in subsea systems. The ROVs have 150hp and are 3,000m-rated. The systems are compact but offer space onboard for tooling systems, the company said. - 02/15/2012

Hiring Demand for Robotics Professionals Nearly Doubled in January
WANTED Analytics found that corporate recruiting and staffing firms posted 2,100 jobs for robotics professionals in January. The growth was nearly 44 percent over ads posted in January 2011, with the largest growing areas in the engineering and techn… - 02/14/2012

They Can't Compete with R2-D2, but Origami Robots Are Flexible and Strong
Most things that "look good on paper" still have to be tested and proven, but that's not true of the origami robots that have been developed at Boston University (BU). - 02/10/2012

Robots Take Part in the Human Experience
Movies like I, Robot and AI: Artificial Intelligence seemingly have inspired an era where people are striving to develop robots that help ease our daily lives. Recently, strides have been made in the area of robots for autistic children and patients … - 02/09/2012

Schilling Robotics Inaugurates Support Center in Macae, Brazil
Schilling Robotics, a company specializing in subsea systems, has inaugurated new service and support operations in Brazil to support its customers' demand and growth. - 02/06/2012

Robots Making Their Way into the Service Industry
Fortunately, many of us live in a society where we no longer lash out on "the help" if we are having a bad day. Instead, we will still tip our servers properly after rude or aloof service because we sympathize with him or her for having a bad day. Ou… - 02/06/2012

2011: A Banner Year in the North American Robotics Industry
The momentum and sustained interest in automation in the manufacturing and automotive industries has set the ball rolling for North American robotic companies, which witnessed unprecedented sales of robots in 2011with the fourth quarter being the str… - 02/06/2012

Schilling Robotics Announces HD ROV System Delivery to Seabed
Schilling Robotics recently announced the successful completion of the delivery of the new HD work-class ROV system to Seabed, provider of services that enable Inspection, Maintenance & Repair, Survey and Construction Support and Subsea Decommissioni… - 02/03/2012

CoroWare Offers ROS Upgrades on Earlier CoroBot UGV Models
CoroWare, a solutions integrator with expertise in affordable and open mobile robotics, is offering Robotic Operating System (ROS) upgrades on its earlier CoroBot unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) models. The CoroBot Classic and CoroBot Explorer fall int… - 02/02/2012

Riding the Back of a Robotic Cheetah
Ioannis Pulakakis, an assistant professor from the University of Delaware, is researching and developing robotic quadrupeds. But why should we care about a man and his pet robots? Apparently, the National Science Foundation believes that Pulakakis is… - 02/01/2012

MyRobots.com Launches App Store for Robots
MyRobots.com announced the launch of the first robot-specific app store today. The first widely available apps are intended for use with iRobot Roomba vacuums, one of the most widely used robots in the world today. Approximately six million Roombas a… - 02/01/2012

Grandville Public Schools, Grandville Academic Team Boosters Bring Autodesk VEX Tournament to Michigan
Grandville Public Schools has been promoting educational robotics for more than 10 years and this year the Grandville school district is hosting one of the most prestigious international robotics competition. To the delight of the Michiganders, Grand… - 02/01/2012

High-Speed Running Robots: Can It Be Done?
We bipeds and our quadruped friends have a fairly easy time navigating terrains of all types. From rock climbing, dune surfing, heck, even skiing - the way we're built allows for us to be flexible and mobile in ways vehicles cannot. - 01/31/2012

Jaybridge Robotics Sponsors 2012 MIT Battlecode Programming Competition
Jaybridge Robotics recently announced that it will sponsor the 2012 MIT Battlecode Programming Competition, which is currently in its 11th year. Each year, the competition features teams from MIT and other institutions who are required to develop aut… - 01/26/2012

22 FIRST/ FLL Robotics Teams Receive $133,000 in Grants from the Chrysler Foundation
The founding sponsor of the FIRST Robotics competition, The Chrysler Foundation, has just announced the names of the 22 teams that are going to receive 2011-2012 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and FLL (FIRST Lego Le… - 01/24/2012

Students Compete to Control NASA Satellites
In what is certainly not your ordinary high school competition, students are vying for a chance to control NASA satellites through a national robotics program. - 01/24/2012

Utah Elementary School Class Receives Donation for Robotics Program
A sixth-grade class in Alpine, Utah has received a generous donation to fund a classroom robotics project. - 01/23/2012

The Year of the Robot Starts Off with a Slither, Crawl and a Bang
As 2012 has been predicted the Year of the Robot, it seems to have started off with a promising outlook that could change the face of many industries for years to come. - 01/23/2012

NYU-Poly Announces Qualifying Round of the Annual FIRST LEGO League
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) has announced that more than 400 elementary and middle school students and their teachers will gather at the University for the Qualifying Round of the annual FIRST LEGO League (FLL). - 01/17/2012

EPSON Robots Debuts Version 5.4 of EPSON RC+ 5.0
EPSON Robots, a company specializing in robotic technology, has debuted version 5.4 of EPSON RC+ 5.0, a development environment that includes the EPSON RC+ Simulator. This new version works with standard PCs running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. - 01/17/2012

TORC Robotics Takes On High-Speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
TORC Robotics just signed a contract with Robotics Technology Consortium, putting efforts in making a sensor that will detect obstacles in high-speed environments. The system will also classify and predict obstacle movements, giving an edge to autono… - 01/17/2012

Students Fancy the Idea of Robots as Friends and Educators, Survey Reveals
What do you think the world would look like if robots were a part of your everyday life? Would they drive your kids to school? Would they cook your husband dinner? Would they teach your children about the Pythagorean Theorem? - 01/17/2012

TOSY Robotics Unveils mRobo Ultra Bass, a Portable Dancing Robot Speaker
TOSY Robotics, a robotics and high-tech toys manufacturer based in Vietnam, has debuted mRobo Ultra Bass, a portable speaker that is also a dancing robot. In a release, Ho Vinh Hoang, founder and CEO, TOSY Robotics, said, "mRobo is one of the most… - 01/13/2012

Bright Future: 2012 Could Be the Year of the Robot Thanks to Cars
Robotics has a rosy outlook for 2012 especially given the apparent demand from the auto sector, according to an industry analysis. In fact, the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) predicts that orders for robots during 2012 could go beyond impres… - 01/11/2012

High School Students Will Use Robotics to Discover History of America's Greatest Generation
Using cutting-edge technology, a group of Michigan teenagers hope they will locate evidence of the bravery displayed by America's Greatest Generation halfway across the world. - 01/11/2012

Health Robotics Logged 101 New Sales in 2011
Health Robotics, a global leading supplier of life-critical intravenous medication robots, logged 101 total contracts awarded in Fiscal Year 2011 including 44 new contracts awarded in 4Q2011. - 01/11/2012

AMT Continues Supporting Robotic Industries Association
Applied Manufacturing Technologies' president and founder Mike Jacobs has been re-elected to serve on the Robotic Industries Association's (RIA) board of directors. - 01/11/2012

NASA Joins Local Technology Firms to Launch 2012 First Robotics Competition
An international robotics competition with a special focus on encouraging and generating technology leaders was held on Jan. 7. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition's largest sponsor, NASA, joined han… - 01/10/2012

ioBridge's ThingSpeak Platform Used to Make Social Network for Robotic Devices
RobotShop just released a social networking platform called MyRobots which allows robots to connect to each other and to their owners. The platform piggybacks on ioBridge's ThingSpeak, an application programming interface that adds interactionability… - 01/10/2012

Bimba Donates Pneumatic Cylinders to FIRST Robotics Competition
For the past eight years, Bimba Manufacturing, an innovator of actuation technology, has been sponsoring the FIRST Robotics Competition and 2012 was no exception. - 01/09/2012

Panasonic Announces New Hires For 2012
Panasonic Corporation of North America, a leading provider of a comprehensive range of digital and other electronics products and services for consumer, business and industrial use, announced the appointment of key executives to lead the company's au… - 01/05/2012

FMC Technologies to Buy the Remaining 55 Percent Stake in Schilling Robotics
FMC Technologies, a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry, announced it has decided to increase its stake in Schilling Robotics, a producer of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), ROV manipulator systems, control systems and o… - 01/04/2012

Nao Robot Can Brush a Curious Cat
Petting or brushing a cat seems like a very human thing to do. Both animal and person enjoy it. But recently a robot - directed by a human - used a brush to stroke a cat. And the cat didn't seem to mind at all. - 01/04/2012

Google's Cloud Robotics Initiative Could Threaten Jobs
Robotics has been heavily reliant on physical processing power, which has made them by and large costly and impractical. But the cloud is about to change all of that as it potentially redefines what robots will be capable of in the 21st Century. G… - 01/03/2012

San Francisco Developer Launches Robot App Store
We all know that the Apple and Android, as well as the Blackberry app stores are some of the driving forces behind the popularity and success of smartphones. If there weren't these little programs that run on our phones and tablets, the iPhone and An… - 01/03/2012

FIRST Robotics Competition to be Held at NASA Wallops Flight Facility Saturday
The NASA Wallops Flight Facility is hosting a robotics competition for high school students from Maryland and Virginia on Saturday. - 01/03/2012

InduraNET p Wireless Communication Now Available for Robotics Industry
Pilz, a company offering solutions that are used in all areas of mechanical engineering, including the automotive, food and woodworking industries, has recently announced that its wireless system InduraNET p (Industrial Radio Network) is specifically… - 01/03/2012

New Program Offers 'Robotic' Day Trader
The advances in the field of robotics in the 21st century have certainly been impressive. We've seen robots that are made to help us in all different ways, from making us breakfast and a snack to giving therapy to sick children. - 01/03/2012

Molex Unveils Brad HarshIO Ethernet I/O Module with QuickConnect
Molex, a supplier of interconnect products, announced that its new Brad HarshIO Ethernet I/O Module with QuickConnect and fast start-up technology can ensure reliable connection between industrial controllers and I/O devices in harsh environments tha… - 12/29/2011

Pennsylvania High School Uses RobotWorx's Robotic Technology
The Marion, Ohio, robotics company RobotWorx, a company that saw an expansion of product offerings for nineteen years and includes such unique options as FANUC delta-style robots and Motoman dual-arm robots, has recently integrated the industrial rob… - 12/28/2011

Robots Taking Over Facebook?
A new website launched Dec. 20, MyRobots.com, aims to be a sort of social network and cloud communications system for consumer robots and other household "smart" objects. - 12/22/2011

RobotShop Introduces MyRobots, a Cloud Robotic solution
To enable consumer to control the personal domestic and professional robots, from anywhere, RobotShop.com, an e-commerce site specializing in service robotics, has introduced a new cloud computing service specifically designed for robots as well as a… - 12/21/2011

Urban Robotics Enhances Octree Format
Urban Robotics Inc. will be making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point Cloud Library (PCL) community, the company has announced. - 12/21/2011

Arizona's First Lego League Robotics Competition Seeing Growing Interest
As the robotics community moves forward, there has been a concerted effort to make sure that the generations that follow this one continue the work. Across America, a new kind of science fair that deals with building robots has started to show up aga… - 12/21/2011

RMT Robotics Prepares Local Ontario Students for the Annual FIRST Lego League and FIRST Robotics Competitions
RMT Robotics, a CimcorpOy company that integrates turnkey robotic gantry-based order fulfilment and provides tire handling solutions for optimized operational efficiencies, has announced that its employees are preparing elementary, secondary and high… - 12/20/2011

Indian Army Utilizes Mobile Robots for IED Disposal
A specially-designed mobile robot - called a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) or "Daksh" - will be used by the Indian Army for handling and disposing of often-dangerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs), according to news reports. Six Daksh vehic… - 12/19/2011

Forsyth Students Compete in Robot Building Contest
While the robotics industry continues to march along in the 21st century, those of us covering the sector sometimes forget who builds these mechanical wonders. Scientists and inventors had to start somewhere and one school district is well aware that… - 12/19/2011

Multi-Robotics Study at Auckland University
The University of Auckland and a cluster of South Korean companies have launched a multi-robotic study at the Auckland retirement village. Groundbreaking research into healthcare robotics could change the lives of the ageing population and create new… - 12/19/2011

ABB Enhances Ease of Integration for Larger Robots
ABB has revealed it has extended the benefits of panel-mounted controllers (PMCs) to its larger robots through PMC Large. - 12/16/2011

GeckoSystems Partners with ZMP of Japan
GeckoSystems, a developer of innovative robotic technology, has announced partnership with ZMP Inc. of Japan. - 12/16/2011

KUKA Robotics Corporation Opens New North American Headquarters
KUKA Robotics Corporation, a subsidiary of KUKA Roboter GmbH, one of the world's leading suppliers of industrial robots, has opened new North American headquarters building in Shelby Township, Michigan, USA. - 12/15/2011

Quanser to Host 20 Students at its Headquarters
Quanser Inc., a leading engineering company dedicated to advancing engineering education and research, recently announced in a press release that it will host 20 students from St. Robert Catholic High School and Saint Brother Andre Catholic High Scho… - 12/14/2011

German Robots Can Make Breakfast, Lunch and a Snack
There are days when it seems like we have learned nothing from the "Terminator" movies. Those particular flicks all warned us that we had to put some limits on just how much we all trusted the machines. Despite those warnings, the robotics industry c… - 12/13/2011

New Generation of Humanoid Robot Launched by Aldebaran
The latest version of the NAO robot has been released by Aldebaran Robotics. The new fully programmable humanoid robot is known as NAO Next Gen. New perspectives and fields of application for its users are being opened up by NAO Next Gen with its ext… - 12/12/2011

Robotics Student Competition 2012 Grants Announced by NASA
The annual FIRST Robotics Competition is being strongly supported by NASA. Grants totaling $1,386,500 will be awarded by NASA to the participants of FIRST. A challenge to design and build a robot has been put forth by FIRST for student teams in 37 st… - 12/12/2011

Liquid Robotics Forms New Strategic Advisory Board
Business leaders, politicians and military personnel are the among those who will work together on the Strategic Advisory Board created by Liquid Robotics, an ocean data services provider and developer of the first wave-powered Wave Glider marine rob… - 12/09/2011

New Algorithms May Be Used in Diverse Applications, Including Robotics
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M ) are employing new algorithms to increase design specs for controllers used in industrial processes, and hopefully it will lead to more diverse applications - including in the field of roboti… - 12/05/2011

New Soft-Bodied Robot Can Help after Earthquake or on Battlefield
In the not so distant past, the public expected that robots were going to be clumsy, uncoordinated and prone to motion mishaps. - 11/29/2011

Team of Researchers to Enable Enhanced Computerized Simulation for Robot Prototyping
A team of researchers from three different well known institutions, Texas A&M University, Rice University and Halmstad University in Sweden has announced collaboration for the development of advanced design software that can accurately predict the ph… - 11/29/2011

NASA's Curiosity Mars Probes Lifts off for Long Voyage
While NASA may not be sending anyone to the moon anytime soon, that doesn't mean that the United States space agency doesn't have other work to do. On Saturday, November 23rd, the Curiosity Mars Rover was launched into space, embarking on an eight an… - 11/28/2011

Mobile Robots Should be Part of Whole Product Solution Says Aethon President
Aldo Zini, president of Aethon a developer of autonomous mobile robots in healthcare emphasized the importance of mobile robots as a "whole-product solution." Zini was delivering the keynote address at the 2011 RoboBusiness Leadership Summit in Bosto… - 11/21/2011

Liquid Robotics' Wave Glider Ocean Robots Set to Cross the Pacific
Liquid Robotics, an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider marine robots, announced that four of its new Wave Glider ocean robots have been set on a journey to cross the Pacific Ocean and it is stated to be the longest distance… - 11/21/2011

Cuddly Robotic Bear Can Help You Stop Snoring
Robotic advancements can do quite a bit to make our lives more bearable. When most people think about the kind of robots that work to make our lives easier, they think of the kind that actually work in the industrial field. Robots that put automobile… - 11/16/2011

St-Antonius Hospital Selects Health Robotics' 1 i.v.STATION Robot
Health Robotics recently entered an agreement with 850-bed medical center St-Antonius Hospital [Utrecht and Nieuwegein, The Netherlands] according to which Health Robotics will provide 1 i.v.STATION Robot to the latter. Also, St-Antonius Hospital wil… - 11/14/2011

Robotics Wire Announces the 2011 Robotics Wire Product of the Year Award
Norwalk, CT, (November 14, 2011) -Robotics Wire, a leading Website dedicated to robotics technologies and sponsored by TMC, announced today the Product of the Year Awards call for entries. - 11/14/2011

NAIST Intros Robotics System to Clothe Elderly, Physically Disabled People
The Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) of Japan has created a robot system that can clothe elderly and physically disabled people. - 11/11/2011

The Future of Robotics: A Closer Look at the Industry of Tomorrow
In our current economy, it's good to know that not all industries are suffering. In a 2010 report by Forbes, they counted down the ten most profitable ones. Included in the list was Photography, Dentistry, Accounting and other financial sectors. The … - 11/11/2011

SYNTELL Debuts Management-Robot
SYNTELL Inc. - a provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software and solutions - has announced one-of-a-kind software-robot, Management-Robot, which can execute management tasks currently performed by today's managers in monitoring business operation… - 11/10/2011

Honda's New Robot Can Help Out in Nuclear Meltdown and Still Serve a Drink
Honda's new "Asimo" - a human-looking robot - has a lot more skills than the previous model released in 2005. - 11/08/2011

Bell Labs Developing Telepresence Robots for Remote Workers
Remote workers may soon have a really easy way to take part in company meetings more fully with a new robot now under development by Bell Labs, according to news reports. - 11/07/2011

Olly Provides a 'Web-Connected Smelly Robot'
The device is USB-powered and goes by the name "Olly." It notifies users with pleasant scents instead of jarring visuals or audio notifications. - 11/07/2011

Hudson Robotics Unveils Commercially Available Fully Automated Colony Isolation Systems
Hudson Robotics, a provider of lab automation solutions, announced the launch of fully automated system for isolating and growing bacterial colonies. - 11/07/2011

FANUC Robotics Enables Coordinated Robot Motion with Constant Path Software
FANUC Robotics America announced that it has released a new YouTube video featuring coordinated robot motion with its Constant Path software feature. - 11/07/2011

Several Global Robot Combat Veterans to Take Part in ComBots Cup VI
California will play host to teams from US, Canada as well as Brazil over the weekend who are all there to fight for The ComBots Cup. This is a yearly global robot combat championship currently in its sixth year. This is the equivalent of the World S… - 11/03/2011

DENSO Robotics' New Videos Now Available on YouTube
DENSO Robotics has announced that its two new videos are now available on its YouTube channel. In addition, the videos also now available on the company's Web site. - 11/02/2011

ABB Robotics Annual Technology Days Event Draws Nearly 1,000 People
The global supplier of industrial robots and modular manufacturing systems and services ABB Robotics recently hosted its annual Technology Days event from Oct. 11-13. The event, held in ABB's North American headquarters and training center in Aubu… - 11/01/2011

New Robots from Boston Dynamics Can Simulate Human Actions
Boston Dynamics has shown a new version of the Petman robot - which can walk and simulate exercise, according to news reports. Discovery reports that the robot can do "push-ups" and the company describes it as an "anthropomorphic robot that moves … - 11/01/2011

Foambot Repairs Bots With Spray Foam
Nothing like a helping hand when in need of repair, especially when you're a robot. At the Modular Robotics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania (MODLAB), Shai Revsen and his team of researchers have created a bot to deal with unknown circums… - 10/21/2011

UPenn Researchers Get PR2 Robot to Pick Up Poop
Many times robots and their creators are criticized for developing mostly impractical, complex solutions. But that charge has to be dropped after the team at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab turned the PR2 robot into a "pooper scooper." - 10/19/2011

The 3rd Great American River Race Raises the Bar for Speed
Billed as the fastest autonomous robotic boat race in the country, the 3rd Annual Great American River race is to be held at Kent County's Millennium Park in Grandville, Michigan. Time trials will begin at 10am on Saturday, October 22, with the race … - 10/18/2011

Uncle Donates Part of Liver in First Robotic Transplant Surgery in India
They've removed cancerous prostates, performed hysterectomies, and in a first of its kind in India, transplanted a liver. Robots, that is. - 10/13/2011

Igus to Sponsor of BEST Robotics Competition for Seventh Year
A leading manufacturer of cable carriers, harnessing, flexible chain, bearings and linear guide systems, igus announced that it is going to be the nationwide product sponsor of the 19th annual BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) Robot… - 10/13/2011

ABB Robot Offers Automated Luggage Storage and Retrieval at New Yotel in Manhattan
You might have heard that robots are doing house chores, fighting on grounds etc. With the latest advancement in the robotics industry, robots will work in an automated luggage storage and retrieval system. - 10/05/2011

Boston Dynamics in Massachusetts Releases Its Latest Version of 'BigDog' Robot
A robotics company called Boston Dynamics posted an online video of a quadruped robot called the BigDog in 2007. Much to the viewers' astonishment, the robot was very agile, quick, and can run on just about any sort of terrain. - 10/05/2011

Panasonic Unveils New Communication Assistance Robot, Hair-Washing Models
Panasonic Corp. has announced the development of an innovative communication assistance robot named "HOSPI-Rimo" and new models of its Hair-Washing Robot and RoboticBed. People who need assistance to lead safe, comfortable and pleasant lives can … - 10/03/2011

Urban Robotics Announces Unparalleled Dense 3D Extraction Technology
Urban Robotics Inc., provider of cutting edge software and hardware solutions for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Remote Sensing and Geospatial applications, recently introduced its unparalleled Dense 3D Extraction technology. - 09/29/2011

Motoman Robotics Introduces High-Speed MPP3 Delta Style Robot
The Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America Inc., pioneering robotics company, has introduced its delta-style Motoman MPP3 robot at the Pack Expo held in Las Vegas. The company's delta-style Motoman MPP3 robot has been designed to deliver enhanc… - 09/28/2011

Panasonic Announces Innovative Communication Assistance Robot and New Models of its Hair-Washing Robot and RoboticBed
Panasonic Corporation, worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronic products, recently introduced an innovative communication assistance robot, "HOSPI-Rimo" and new models of its Hair-Washing Robot and RoboticBed. - 09/27/2011

Liquid Robotics Invites Ocean Scientists From to Take Part in Its Pacific Crossing (PacX) Grand Challenge
The ocean data services provider Liquid Robotics has today formally opened its Pacific Crossing (PacX) Challenge for the scientists around the world. - 09/23/2011

Liquid Robotics Appoints Renowned Scientist and NASA Astronaut, Edward T. Lu, as Chief of Innovative Applications
Edward T. Lu, formerly of Google and NASA, has joined Liquid Robotics, Inc., an ocean data services provider and developer of the first wave-powered Wave Glider marine robot, as chief of innovative applications. - 09/19/2011

NASA, VASC Hosting Robotics Merit Badge Events for the Local Boy Scouts
Under the partnership between NASA and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), NASA's Langley Research Center and the Virginia Air & Space Center are to jointly host a series of Robotics merit badge events, on Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is e… - 09/19/2011

Mini Robot Tries Its, Well, Robotic Hand at Ironman Triathlon
October 24 is a big day for many athletes. The Hawaii Ironman, a taxing 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike race and a 26-mile run is the kind of event that one has to spend quite a decent amount of time training for. That is, unless of course, you're a r… - 09/15/2011

Will Robot Workers to Replace Human Financial Traders?
Given the current recession and volatile stock markets, financial traders across the world are beginning to worry about standing in the employment line. Worse yet, some of them fear they might even be replaced by robots. Although National Aeronautics… - 09/15/2011

Will Computers Replace Human Journalists?
Will computer-produced prose someday replace hard-working human journalists - and even create stories that compete with the works of Ernest Hemingway or E.B. White? - 09/13/2011

Liquid Robotics' Wave Powered Ocean Vehicle Bags $100,000 Gulfstream Navigator Award 2011
Savannah Ocean Exchange, a year-old organization committed foster distribution and adoption of solutions that positively impact oceans and ocean life, recently named Liquid Robotics of Sunnyvale as the recipient of $100,000 Gulfstream Navigator Award… - 09/13/2011

RedZone Robotics Secures $25 Million Investment
ABS Capital Partners, Inc. has invested $25 million in RedZone Robotics, a designer and manufacturer of wastewater inspection technologies and related analytical solutions for municipalities, contractors and engineering companies, the company has ann… - 09/09/2011

NASA's Desert RATS Commence Robotic Space Exploration Test
NASA's Desert RATS, or Research and Technology Studies, has been conducting field tests for more than a decade now, with ever-increasing fidelity year by year. This year, from August 27 through September 12, the RATS team has begun the 14th trip to t… - 08/31/2011

Motion Control Market on Its Way to Recovery: Report
Want to learn more about the latest in communications and technology? Then be sure to attend ITEXPO West 2011, taking place Sept. 13-15, 2011, in Austin, Texas. ITEXPO offers an educational program to help corporate decision makers select the right I… - 08/31/2011

Gifted 4th Graders Help Paradise Robotics Build Demonstration Robots
The Barrington, IL based provider of consumer robots, Paradise robotics, recently did an outstanding job by engaging some local 4th grade students in the building of several robots. - 08/30/2011

Robotiq Partners with Motoman Robotics
Robotiq, manufacturer of Adaptive Robotic Grippers, has announced that it has signed an agreement with Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America, Inc., industrial robot manufacturer. Under the terms of the agreement, Robotiq's Adaptive Gripper wil… - 08/26/2011

Tweeters Don't Have to Be Human
You don't have to be human to send a tweet. You don't even have to be of this world. The Robonaut R2, a human-like robot, recently sent a tweet while on the International Space Station. And what did R2 tell the world and its almost 40,000 followers? - 08/26/2011

Report Indicates a Rejuvenated Robotics Market after a Temporary Lull
Electronics.ca Publications is a world-class research network and publishing company whose focus is technology and market research for the electronics industry. Its latest report indicated that global demand for robotics was set to reach $21.8 billio… - 08/22/2011

Do the Robot: Work from Home while a Telepresence 'Bot Mans your Desk
It's not quite like the 2009 Bruce Willis movie Surrogates. It's not even much like piloting a remote operated vehicle in the 1989 movie The Abyss. But if you would rather work from home in your pajamas while still being able to stroll alongside the … - 08/18/2011

Six High School Seniors Walk Away with Gates' Scholarships
The 2011 FIRST Robotics Team competition, in which over 2,000 teams participated, was held at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis April 27-30. The Gates Corporation awarded six deserving high school seniors a non-renewable $2,000 scholarship. - 08/12/2011

Adept Technology Signs as the Exclusive Provider of Mobile Robots for Swisslog Healthcare Solutions
Adept Technology, a provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions and services, announced its agreement with Swisslog Healthcare Solutions (HCS), a provider of logistics automation solutions for healthcare facilities. - 08/12/2011

New PR2 Robot Announced by Willow Garage
Willow Garage recently announced the availability of the world's most advanced personal robot platform, the PR2 Robot. The single arm personal robot will be named PR2 SE and will cost $285,000. Individuals with proven track record for contributions t… - 08/12/2011

Broadcasting Automation Company Unveils Latest Camerobot Robotic System
Robots are playing a key role in the broadcast industry these days as they can be efficient for productions ranging from newscasts to live sports coverage to parliamentary broadcasts. In addition, these robots can cut operating costs in terms of came… - 08/09/2011

Motoman Introduces MyMotoman Remote Monitoring Service
The Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America, Inc., which is said to be the second largest robotics company in the Americas, has yielded to customer demand for 'anytime, anywhere on any device' information by introducing a new era in equipment mo… - 08/09/2011

Innovation First Lab Introduces New Mechanical Robotic Bugs
In a bid to unlock kids' creative potential and reinforce learning through imaginative playtime, Innovation First Labs, Inc., has announced the launch of a new back to school and holiday product line-up. - 08/05/2011

FANUC Robotics Shows Affordable Robots at PPMA
According to a press release, FANUC Robotics robots will be out in force at this year's PPMA Exhibition being demonstrated by FANUC Robotics UK and also by several of its strategic partners. - 08/04/2011

Charging Docking Station Available for MantaroBot TelePresence Robot
The first accessory for the MantaroBot TelePresence Robot has been launched by Mantaro. The MantaroBot TelePresence Robot is a docking station for charging which was announced in December 2010. Customers were shipped the MantaroBot in Q1 of 2011. The… - 08/04/2011

Jaybridge Robotics Increases Corn Productivity with New Software
Jaybridge Robotics and Iowa-based Kinze Manufacturing have teamed on developing an autonomous grain cart system. - 08/04/2011

Tiny Robot Walks On Water Like a Water Bug
Well, we have robots who build our cars, robots who vacuum our floors and robots who detonate bombs. We also have robots that can fly like birds and take aerial photos. How about a robot that can walk on water? - 08/02/2011

MDA Reports 2Q 2011 Results, Announces Stock Buyback
Space robotics company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has announced its second quarter 2011 financial results. It will be paying a dividend of C$0.50 a share and plans a C$500 million stock buyback. - 08/01/2011

Lockheed Martin's SMSS Autonomous Vehicle Selected by U.S. Army for Afghanistan
The U.S. Army has selected the Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) to deploy in Afghanistan. Lockheed Martin's SMSS won the prestigious Project Workhorse Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) competition sponsored by the Army. - 08/01/2011

ABI Research: Robotic Component Revenues to Exceed $2.36 Billion in 2016
ABI Research recently came up with a research report that forecasts robotic component revenues to exceed $2.36 billion in 2016, in a total robotics market of some $22 billion. According to the "Robotic Components" study, the major contributor of grow… - 07/28/2011

STMicroelectronics and the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Establish a Joint Lab to Develop Advanced Robots and Smart Systems
To start research and innovation in bio-robotics, smart systems and microelectronics, STMicroelectronic, a semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, a university sy… - 07/28/2011

Robotics Event held in Indiana
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics leaders are attending a robotics competition at Indianapolis. The event known as the all-star event for students competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is to be held at Lawrence North High S… - 07/27/2011

New Jersey Storming Robots Represents U.S. at 2011 Robocup Junior World Tournament
Storming Robots, a robotics learning center in NJ, announced that two seventh-grade students from the institute have been invited to represent the USA in the Robocup Junior (RCJ) World Tournament. Andrew Amerman and Andrew Pathare from Bridgewater T… - 07/26/2011

'Arduino Robotics' Imparts Simple Techniques to Build Robots
The Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform based on Atmel AVRs and is very popular because of its simplicity and many features. John-David Warren , highlighting this aspect has, in his latest book "Arduino Robotics," imparted to his readers, … - 07/22/2011

Gumstix, Inc. Announces the Release of the $99 RoboVero Controller Board
The super-fast RoboVero controller board has been fitted with a 32-bit Cortex-M3 processor capable of running at speeds of 120MHz. The controller board has completely revolutionized the processes employed by roboticists to build and debug their desig… - 07/21/2011

Rep Invariant Systems Changes Name to Jaybridge Robotics
Massachusetts-based Rep Invariant Systems, Inc. announced that it has changed its name to Jaybridge Robotics. - 07/21/2011

Grauer School Robotics Team Grabs Spotlight at San Diego County Fair
Grauer School, the UNESCO associated college preparatory school, which has earned a reputation for its expeditionary learning and Socratic methods, proudly announced that its robotics Shockwave team walked away with as many as four top awards at the … - 07/20/2011

Smithsonian Institution Obtains Sansia's Robot for its Permanent Collection
Officials from Sandia National Laboratories, a multiprogram laboratory operated and managed by Sandia Corporation, recently announced in a press release that Smithsonian Institution has obtained nine of Sandia's historically significant robots for it… - 07/20/2011

Stanford Students Use Kinect to Begin Jedi Training
While Luke Skywalker had a training remote to assist him in his initial lightsaber orientation aboard the Millennium Falcon, students at Stanford decided to make something even better. Using a Microsoft Kinect, they developed a fully functional light… - 07/19/2011

MHI's Quest for Robotic Excellence Boosted with Energid's New Technologies
Energid Technologies Corporation, which specializes in the sensing, control and simulation of complex robotic systems, has helped Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Ltd. move forward by developing a next-generation robot prototype for heat exchanger … - 07/18/2011

AI Takes a Step in Language Comprehension Thanks to Gaming
While artificial intelligence is probably still a ways off from posing any really threat to society, one would think that teaching a computer how to play a game that centers on global domination is still not such a great idea. But that's exactly what… - 07/14/2011