Robots Are Taking An Increasing Number Of Jobs, New UN Report Says (October 21, 2004) -- The chances of having an obedient robot do unwelcome or dangerous jobs have increased tremendously, with orders for industrial robots rising to a record 18 per cent in the first half of this year, a ... > full story

Robots Are Evolving, Population Is Booming Worldwide (January 17, 2000) -- The population of robots nearly doubled over the last decade in North America alone, and they are becoming increasingly important in applications ranging from quality control to space exploration, ... > full story

Fastest Industrial Robot On The Market (May 8, 2007) -- Researchers have designed a manipulator-type robot that is twice as fast as all existing robots. To achieve this feat, they have worked on optimizing both the shape of the robot and its control ... > full story

Carnegie Mellon Student Develops Origami Folding Robot (May 14, 2004) -- Devin Balkcom, a student in Carnegie Mellon University's doctoral program in robotics, was looking for a challenge when he decided to develop the world's first origami-folding robot as the subject of ... > full story

Snake-like Robot Conquers Obstacles (March 25, 2005) -- A virtually unstoppable "snakebot" developed by a University of Michigan team that resembles a high-tech slinky as it climbs pipes and stairs, rolls over rough terrain and spans wide gaps to reach ... > full story

Researchers Say Hybrid Pick And Place Robots Could Be A Third Cheaper (December 18, 2003) -- Robot researchers have long looked at the science of Kinematics and particularly how it applies to parallel robotics as providing novel solutions to robotic ... > full story

Mini Robots To Undertake Major Tasks? (February 26, 2006) -- From cell manipulation to micro assembly, micro robots devised by an international team of researchers offer a glimpse of the ... > full story

Conflicting Signals Can Confuse Rescue Robots (March 3, 2007) -- Researchers at NIST report that the radio transmissions of multiple search and rescue robots can interfere with each other and degrade ... > full story

Robots And Inflatable Conveyor Belts Set To Slash Farm Labour Costs (March 21, 2006) -- Research engineers andhorticulture specialists at the University of Warwick are workingtogether to devise a suite of robots and automated systems which couldtransform farming and horticulture over ... > full story

Second Humanoid Robot In France Welcomed (February 28, 2007) -- The CNRS, the LIRMM and the University of Montpellier, France, have just received the fruit of a Japanese French collaboration (JRL) -- two humanized robots. Human size they will help develop the ... > full story

Dancing With Robots -- Robotic Couriers Can Save Hospitals Money (May 22, 2000) -- Robotic couriers can save hospitals a substantial amount of money according to University of Arkansas researcher Manuel Rossetti. His study of middle- to large-size hospitals found that a fleet of ... > full story

Industrial robot -- An industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. The field of industrial robotics may be more practically defined as ... > full article

Robot calibration -- Robot calibration is the process of identifying the real geometrical parameters in the kinematic structure of an industrial robot, i.e., the relative position and orientation of links and joints in ... > full article

Robotic surgery -- Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and unmanned surgery. Major potential ... > full article

Nanorobotics -- Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10^-9 metres). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the still largely theoretical ... > full article

Humanoid robot -- A humanoid robot is a robot with its overall appearance based on that of the human body. In general humanoid robots have a torso with a head, two arms and two legs, although some forms of humanoid ... > full article

Android -- An android is a robot made to resemble a human, usually both in appearance and behavior. The word android has been used to denote several different kinds of artificially constructed beings: a robot ... > full article

Mechanical engineering -- Mechanical engineering is a very broad field of engineering that involves the application of physical principles for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical ... > full article

Computer vision -- Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that see. As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory and technology for building artificial systems that obtain ... > full article

Robot --

A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent. It is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The ... > full article

Computer -- A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions - a program. Computers can be extremely versatile. In fact, they are universal information processing machines. ... > full article