From real estate to medicine to retail, practically every industry is seeing a rise in machines entering the futuristic field. Here's why that's a good thing (for the most part).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»
Robots are swiftly moving from the realm of fantasy into our living rooms, our news reports, and our office spaces, while influencing our laws and our collective consciousness. The future was yesterday.READ»
It has been written that: "At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." So what can this week's crop of mechanistic marvels tell us about ourselves?READ»
How would you feel if you met Danish Professor Henrik Scharfe and then moments later were introduced to another Henrik Scharfe, this time an almost identical android? A new Geminoid bot makes this possible.READ»
Microsoft's Kinect may be a toy, but a new hack is giving it some serious skills: As an interface to the incredible robot surgeon da Vinci. It's accurate enough to sew sutures.READ»
A hacker has put together a viable home-brew telepresence robot using easily available components that's good enough to rival much more expensive peers like Anybot's QB. More than anything, this suggests telepresence virtual working is an imminent phenomenon.READ»
Telepresence robots aren't much more than Skype bots on wheels, right? That's what we thought before taking part in a scavenger hunt this week using the Anybots QB telepresence robot--an attractive bot set to go on sale this fall ...READ»
Meet Justin, the space robot. He's clever, agile, wired to a human for control (of the robot, not the human) and he's a possible solution for fixing orbiting satellites in the post-Shuttle era. If they're dead, he can even fire them ...READ»
We mentioned Vgo, the telepresence bot, yesterday, as being possibly the first truly viable remote-working avatar robot we've seen, though we didn't know much about how he worked. Then the folks at Vgo revealed some data to us, and ...READ»
Telepresence droids may be in the news at the mo, but previous efforts have looked comedic and been obscenely expensive. Enter Vgo, with a sci-fi-ish name, sleek ready-for-TV looks and a price that's less than an arm and a leg's ...READ»
Ever wish you could attend a meeting without getting out of bed or chat with participants at a conference 2,000 miles away? You could always videochat, sure, but it's just not as meaningful as having a physical presence. Enter the ...READ»
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money?READ»
Video conferencing technology has been around for years, but most of us still don't spend our days sitting in large rooms staring at virtual counterparts of our distant coworkers--we prefer confusing conference calls or plain old ...READ»
Cisco Systems is making a bid for Norwegian video-conferencing firm Tandberg--it's a move to consolidate its teleconferencing strengths, but it's coming at a steep price: $3 billion in hard cash.Tandberg is a "global leader in video ...READ»
In spite of the worsening economy, U.S. sales of LCD televisions are already up 20% over January and February of last year (and up 50% in Europe), according to vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics Lee Yoon-woo. The boost is ...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»
