As I rounded corner after corner at the NY Toy Fair this week, there they were: robots, and lots of them. Some were fuzzy and wanted to be my friend. Some had a menacing mechanical appeal. Others ...

Robots on display at CES 2011 include a robo-masseur, a tablet-controlled robot with telepresence functions, bots that clean your home, and a diet mentor droid. Check out the CNET News.com photo ...

What you don’t know: where the other end is, who’s in it, what they’ve left behind. Is it booby-trapped? Is it big enough for a person to walk through? Is the air quality lethal? Who’s on the other ...

Robots! Not content with milking our cows and displacing our boyfriends and girlfriends, now they're exploding our labor markets. At the blog Modeled Behavior, Karl Smith asks and answers the question ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making a robot that can pick things up is not really a challenge anymore. Provided you calibrate your force sensors correctly the task is fairly simple. Making a robot that knows what ...

Finally - your robot has a place to upload its cat pictures. Okay, not really - at least, in the first iteration. But MyRobots.com, which was unveiled earlier this week by online robotics retailer ...

Reporting from Tokyo — Hiroshi Endo spent a decade building a robotic arm that Japan deployed to the International Space Station in 2010. But his next challenge made that one look easy. In 2011, Endo, ...

Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer behind gadgets like the iPad and PlayStation 3, plans to replace more workers with robots in the next three years, and increase its robotic headcount to a million by ...

Mike Fennelly isn't easily surprised by cutting-edge technologies, but when he started as an IT guy at a Silicon Valley startup called Evernote, he was caught off guard by a robot rolling around the ...

The VStone company and the city of Osaka organized a robot marathon. The robots must complete 422 laps of a 100 meter course. The course is a full length marathon (26.2 miles/42.2km) and was scheduled ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The upcoming side-scrolling shooter Shoot Many Robots, developed by Demiurge Studios is coming out in 2012 and Penny Arcade Expo attendees were able ...