Humans view robots as everything from personal assistants to harbingers of doom, but choreographer Thomas Freundlich sees them as graceful dancers. His latest show — called Human Interface — Continue reading…
One of the most appealing promises of robotics is that mechanical prostheses could one day give paralyzed or otherwise disabled people a full range of mobility. Before we can replace our entire bodies Continue reading…
Just in case you didn't feel bad enough about crushing or burning murderously friendly turrets in Portal, an enterprising engineer has built a real-life version of our favorite stationary weapons. Continue reading…
The HRP3L-JSK robot may look like little more than a pair of legs, but it can do something a lot of robots can't — stay balanced. The bot can take a beating and stay standing, as demonstrated in Continue reading…
Glasses with cameras and other sensors more commonly found in robots could soon be used to help the blind navigate, using a tactile display to create a three-dimensional braille map of the person's Continue reading…
Hugvie is a vaguely human-shaped cushion from Japan with a robotic heart that pulses with emotion. Not sold yet? There's a pocket for you to place your phone inside, and the vibrations of the robot Continue reading…
Russia is working on its own version of NASA's Robonaut with a machine called SAR-400 that's due to reach the International Space Station by 2014, but there's one important difference between the two Continue reading…
As promised, Bellevue, Washington-based Planetary Resources is letting everyone else in its plans. The project, backed by Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, film director James Cameron, and Ross Continue reading…
Chinese auto manufacturer BYD unveiled a new car named the Qin at the Beijing Auto Show last week. It's a pretty unremarkable plug-in hybrid, aside from one aspect — that awesome looking robot on Continue reading…
We've seen robots used by the US Navy and UK health service, and the next public sector implementation is potentially even more fraught with risk. Field testing is underway in South Korea for what R Continue reading…
