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If you don't want to be reliant on (or still don't really like using) a trackpad, and tire of dragging a full-sized mouse around, then the Odin, a laser-projected mouse, might be worth a look. You've ...

Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...

A robotic game of cat and mouse playing out in a lab provides a peek at future possibilities of robots carrying out search-and-rescue missions or wildlife surveys without much human guidance. The ...

You’ve built the perfect robotic arm. How do you drive it? If you are [angrymop] you interface a 3D mouse from 3DConnexion via a few microcontroller boards. The Spacenavigator mouse is a staple ...

The amazing MicroMouse competition, in which a small robotic vehicle, or "mouse," finds its way through a complex maze by learning the fastest route, is coming to the University of Nevada, Reno campus ...

[Photo: Ng Beng Kiat] If you’ve ever found a maze puzzle particularly difficult, prepare to be both amazed and ashamed. In fact, you may have just been beaten by a robotic mouse, which managed to ...