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This Year In Bots

We wrote about a lot of machines in 2011. Here are the best of our future (dancing!) robot overlords. READ MORE

This Week In Bots: Soldierdroids, Robot Chefs, And Dragons

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 MORE

This Week In Bots: The Flapping, Foam-Spraying, Zombie-Satellite-Tracking, Poop-Scoopin' Edition

Wondering about the latest developments related to our future robotic overlords? You came to the right place.READ MORE

This Week In Bots: Think You Better Dance Now

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 MORE

This Week In Bots: Learning Bots, Baking Bots, Gesture-Reading Bots

Robots are ever closer to being clever enough, autonomous enough, and useful enough to actually become part of daily life. Here are the latest robo-developments. READ MORE

This Week In Bots: Open-Source Learning Bots, Sensitive Robo-Skin, Robot Soccer, Chocolate Printer Bot, And More

What developments in robotics have happened this week? Too many to mention in this space, so unless you are a psychic bot, better read on to find out. READ MORE

This Week In Bots: Robochefs, Killer Toy Drones, Teacherbots, And More

As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week?READ MORE

This Week In Bots: Droids Evolve Language, Disney Researches Swarms, Swordfights!, Cheap Butlers, And Colbert's Pandertron 8000

Robots, robots everywhere, and soon they'll begin to think. The tech behind our future android assistants evolves every minute. Here's the latest.READ MORE

Samsung Snags Willow Garage's PR2 Robot

The Korean electronics giant is among the first four customers for Silicon Valley startup Willow Garage's PR2: a human-sized, two-armed wheeled robot intended for academic and industrial robotics research.READ MORE

Kinect's Greatest Hack: A Gesture-Control Robot

Microsoft's Kinect is being hacked left, right and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: Kinect, a robot, and gesture control.READ MORE

The Future of Personal Robotics: Open Source

This week marks the third anniversary of ROS, an open-source software platform for the robotics industry developed by Stanford and Silicon Valley robotics research lab Willow Garage.READ MORE

Uh-oh--Robots Can Learn and Generalize

The robocalypse may be nearing, but in general the bots you see are pretty much just following carefully-prepared human orders. Until now. Turning the fear-factor up to 11, a researcher has a robot that can learn and ...READ MORE