Installations of new robots set a record and peaked in 2005, with 126,700 new units, 30 percent more than were installed in 2004, and nearly 13 percent more than the 110,600 industrial robots that are ...

The 2005 World Expo (formerly the World’s Fair, famous for once introducing the world to ice cream cones and also communism) in Japan will be greeting its guests with robots when it opens later this ...

While consumers have long benefited from military technology trickling into the civilian sector, government research into mobile robots promises to bring a host of products previously only envisioned ...

Watching the original “Star Wars” movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2. After enduring plenty of lean years chasing ...

Let the battle of the machines begin again. Forty self-navigating robots were chosen as semifinalists Monday for spots in the Oct. 8 sequel to last year’s first-ever robot race across the Mojave ...

Purdue University will sponsor a nine-day tribute to robotics during two separate events open to the public March 10-19. The first event features ASIMO, which Honda Motor Co. created and bills as the ...

It doesn’t get much hotter than bot-on-bot action (it’s enough to make your circuits fuse), and the eRobotica 2005 PlayBot Calendar aims to please. Each month has a different robot Playmate, with ...

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