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Humanoid robots are edging closer to everyday life, and a new wave of US startups is betting that the real breakthrough will not be in metal and motors but in the “brains” that let machines understand ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- One small step for robot, one giant leap for AI. For the first time to date, researchers out of Northwestern University developed an artificial intelligence that can design a robot ...

Makers, hobbyists and education establishments that have ever wanted to build their own robot, complete with a variety of different sensors. Are sure to be interested in a new open source robot called ...

Another day, another inventive use for Willow Garage's PR2 robot. In this case, it's the students at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab, who've successfully programmed a PR2 to ...

Even simple robots used to require quite a bit of effort to pull together. This example shows how far we’ve come with the tools and techniques that make things move and interact. It’s a 3D printed ...

Six weeks, $15,000 in parts and one or two dozen high schoolers. If only the Mars rovers were this easy. That”s at least the general formula for the 10 robot building teams who hit UC Davis on ...

Inspired by battle-hardened military robots, [Engineering Juice] wanted to build his own remote controlled rover that could deliver live video from the front lines. But rather than use an ...

A demo posted by Willow Garage, a Palo Alto, California, robotic company, shows two robots working together to make pancakes from a mix. The robots — James and Rosie — even flipped the pancakes ...