Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots

MrSeb writes "In a world where warfare is fast becoming fielded by remote controlled and autonomous robots, innovation is the key to victory. The most technologically advanced superpower can see more, plan better, and attack from further away than its inferior adversaries. What better way to revolutionize the drone and robotics industry than use the brilliant minds of our children? That's what ...

Exclusive: Robots, revamping, and rearming; a Q&A with the developers of Borderlands 2

Developers from Gearbox Software, the developers of the Borderlands games, talk robots, Borderlands 2, and the health of the industry.

Merging Play and Learning: Why Students Love Robots

Formal robotics competitions are growing in popularity, but what if robots were a part of kids'  everyday school and home experience? That's the question posed to almost 350 8- to 12-year-olds in a new study conducted by international research consultancy Latitude, the LEGO Learning Institute, and Project Synthesis. The student responses reveal that robots are "a useful proxy for understanding ...

Japanese 'Dream Project' looking to kill bugs with LEDs, harvest crops with robots

No, they aren't harvesting us just yet, but Japan is putting in place a plan that could see automated farms that feature robotic tractors for tilling earth and collecting crops while LEDs keep unwanted pests at bay. It's part of something called the "Dream Project," a four billion yen ($52 million) effort to reclaim some of the farmland that was affected by the March tsunami . An area in Miyagi ...

'Nikita' Recap: 'Clean Sweep'

Lillian Chen Nikita left a big cliffhanger at the end of its last episode, ‘Sanctuary,’ three weeks ago, when, just as we thought Amanda was ready to put Percy into a medically induced coma, he pulled the ultimate game-changer on her: grant him his freedom, or his guardians, who interrupted Oversight’s meeting and was holding them hostage, would kill them all and activate Operation Clean Sweep ...