Robots

Keeping kids engaged while everyone is home can be a great time to explore new activities while learning skills. We've reached out to families to find their favorite toys, puzzles and games to find out which ones are a hit at home. Our list…

The United Arab Emirates, known for its lavish building projects like the Burj Khalifa, is also financing an equally ambitious robot project. PAL Robotics, based in Barcelona, Spain, was contracted to build a robot that could stand next…

NASA's Robonaut 2 (R2) isn't half the robot it used to be. On Monday, the space agency released images and video showing new legs that will be added to the robot assistant currently working aboard the International Space Station (ISS).…

Leave it to DARPA to turn disaster relief into a competitive sport for robots, and for Google to walk away with the prize. In 2013, 16 robotics teams from around the world competed in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, as part of…

They are not the same gadgets you look for in the technological community of today. They are not like the popular Apple devices iPhone 5 and iPad 4. They are capable of doing so much more. Kirobo The first robot ever to utter…

We tend to think of livestock farmers as "one man and his dog," but if AgResearch of New Zealand has anything to say, that pair may have to move over to include a robot. A team led by Dr. Andrew Manderson is developing AgriRover, an…

Back in June the world got its first glimpse of the iStruct, a robot ape developed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Bremen. We predicted that in addition to the stability afforded by…