Sure, a handheld personal digital assistant can beep its brains out to remind you of a noon appointment, but what if you left it at home? The beeping would be for naught - unless that Palm Pilot could ...

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

A group of robot enthusiasts built the world’s first mini sumo robot from scratch. Launched in a Kickstarter campaign, the team needs to raise money to start mass production of the mini robot and make ...

A bunch of robot vacuums are on sale ahead of Amazon's upcoming Prime Big Deals Day event, some of which are priced at ...

The [Dallas Personal Robotics Group] recently put together a set of tutorials for their members, including the build process of a table-top robot, they call the Tiny Wanderer. The bot can be ...

Ever heard of the Keepon robot? Originally created as a therapeutic tool to interact with children with autism and other social disorders, this cute, dancing, and addictive social robot has gained ...

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Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, a global expert in robot-assisted cardiac surgery, noticed a problem in his field. The global surgical robotics market is booming, set to reach $12.6 billion by 2025, according ...

Robots are useful assistants, from cleaning floors to setting timers. But when it comes to helping sick humans, in ERs and at home, there are huge technical and ethical hurdles. UCSD Professor Laurel ...