Consumers: Robots should clean my windows

A survey finds strong interest among consumers for robots that would do the dirty, dull work around the house.

Contest Challenges Students to Control Space Station Robots

Two basketball-size robots gave off puffs of compressed gas as they flew around inside the International Space Station to simulate the mining of virtual asteroids. Their success or failure depended completely upon computer coding provided by student teams watching from 250 miles below on Earth.

Running Robots

University of Delaware professor works to design faster robots, modeling their movement on animals.

QinetiQ North America Receives Urgent Order for Micro Robots: Dragon Runner 10 Selected for US Joint Urgent ...

QinetiQ North America today announced that its Dragon Runner 10 (DR10) has been selected by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) in response to a Joint Urgent Operations Needs Statement (JUONS) for lightweight, throwable robots. This order for more than 100 DR10 robots represents the first significant US military procurement of this new class of robot. ...

Humans Lose, Robots Win in New Defense Budget

The big loser in the Pentagon's new budget? Ordinary human beings.