A while ago, people engaged in war actually broke a sweat. Some of them even got killed. While this certainly was a bad thing for the team receiving the hits, it made for a somewhat more "noble"...
By Andrew Liszewski
As a child of the 80's I'll always have a soft spot for robots thanks to years of watching Go-Bots, Transformers, Voltron, Tranzor-Z and even G.I. Joe since the B.A.T. characters were always my favorite. Sadly though...
By Evan Ackerman
These helium blimps, nicknamed "Blubber Bots," are fully autonomous robots that gracefully float from place to place, searching for food ( represented as LED lights) and companionship. Created by Jed Berk, the fat and happy form factors...
By David Ponce
All the cool kids these days are quickly realizing that carrying their own backpacks to school is so very last week. That's why you're bound to start seeing this robotic mule popping up in a neighborhood...
By David Ponce
The team at BotJunkie are doing a great job unearthing cool bot stories. Here's a few highlights:
- The Germans know how to live... and eat. They've built a robotic restaurant, with robo-waiters... of sorts. ...
By David Ponce
Being trapped beneath a pile of rubble is a bad way to spend your weekend. And while people in earthquake prone areas are more likely to benefit from the Hibiscus rescue bot (a design of Chiba...
Seems the little Roomba/Scooba guys aren't as efficient as we think they are. The way they work, see, is by tracing random paths along your living room, until they've supposedly covered everything. Problem is, seems they can...
By David Ponce
Security cameras are so 1922. If you have a primal fear of human contact and would rather interact with the outside world through a dry, impersonal technological fence, then you might as well do it with...
By David Ponce
I love robots. What we see of them today is the embryo of our future mecha-overlords. This particular model for instance, has already learned some martial arts moves. The ‘HRP-2 Promet’ of Kawada Industries...