With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

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RC Robot Adventure Game is a prototype pitched to Nintendo by Masahiro Sakurai alongside Dragon King: The Fighting Game. It starred an RC robot and the player needed to hack cameras to progress. DC ...

[Charles] and his brother have been members of their school’s FIRST robotics team for many years, and using some of the knowledge they acquired during it, they have put together this awesome ...

Back at the end of August, we talked a bit about the cool bug styled Skitterbot from Desk Pets. The little bugs skittered around the house and could be had in several colors. The company that makes ...

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Imagine walking into a Disney theme park and being greeted by Mike from Monsters Inc. A life-size Mike, perfectly spherically-proportioned on those spindly legs. Fitting a human into a costume like ...

This remote controlled, Arduino-based robot was created by a young student named [Quin] who likes to teach electronics classes at hackerspaces. It is an adaptation of this awesome, fast, fully ...

The use of remotely-controlled robots to perform delicate surgery is growing. The approach offers benefits to both patients and doctors including less fatigue, quicker recovery times and a reduced ...