What you don’t know: where the other end is, who’s in it, what they’ve left behind. Is it booby-trapped? Is it big enough for a person to walk through? Is the air quality lethal? Who’s on the other ...

Robots on display at CES 2011 include a robo-masseur, a tablet-controlled robot with telepresence functions, bots that clean your home, and a diet mentor droid. Check out the CNET News.com photo ...

Robots! Not content with milking our cows and displacing our boyfriends and girlfriends, now they're exploding our labor markets. At the blog Modeled Behavior, Karl Smith asks and answers the question ...

Pack-bearing robots aren't working out in tests, so the Army is considering a return to a proven older method. Army DARPA DOD There are times when technology meets a limit and an old way of doing ...

Gary Marchant admits it’s a case of technology outpacing politics. Lethal autonomous military robots, machines that can act and kill on the battlefield without human input, are the future, but it’s ...

While the Navy has not been as gung-ho about robots as the Army and Air Force, it certainly forsees a greater role for robots in its future capabilities, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead ...

Controlled remotely by English teachers in the Philippines, the 29 robots wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them, and dancing to music by moving their head ...

“Automate” will be the new name for the International Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show sponsored by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), and the ...

Japan is famous for its advances in robotics. The story of humanoid robot Astro Boy has been a favorite among Japanese for decades, and no doubt inspired the significant efforts that have gone into ...