Kids have unbridled imaginations and a healthy dose of optimism about what the future might hold. When they were asked about how robots might help them learn and work better, they had some potentially prescient answers.READ»
Why is Honda's lovable child-sized android Asimo so damn adorable despite having a darkened, astronaut-mask-like visage? This and other important questions answered right here, right now in TWIB. READ»
A Tel Aviv researcher inserted a "robotic" cerebellum into the brain of a paralyzed rat. In an experiment the brain-injured rodent could only blink, on its own, when its robotic cerebellum was turned on. There's much more where that came from in this week's installment of TWIB.READ»
Meet Meka Robotics' M1: It's mobile, has dextrous arms, smart software, uses modified Microsoft Kinect sensors, and if you work in manual industries, could one day steal your job.READ»
This running robot uses the same leg design as Oscar Pistorius, the bi-amputee runner with carbon fiber feet who was denied entry to the Olympic games because his artificial lower limbs gave him an unfair advantage over able-bodied human runners.READ»
Meet Surena 2, a human-sized, human-shaped (ish) robot that's new on the world robotics scene. He's capable of walking, and designed to perform the similar sort of human-assist role as other similar bots. He's from Iran. ...READ»
The robot revolution is indeed on its way: Soon we'll have robovacuums, robot chefs, and now, robots teaching our kids about robots. But it's not a one-way evolution, as humans are becoming little more futuristic too, with the help ...READ»
A new video of a Boston Dynamics robot has surfaced--possibly the scariest yet. The company's name alone should give you the willies if you've watched the Terminator movies or seen the previous chilling robots ...READ»
Sitting in my spare bathroom is a large device dubbed a Cat Robot, and though it's not as sophisticated-looking as, say, an automobile production line spot-welding robot, let alone a Transformer, this robotic gizmo is a blessing ...READ»
