John Palmisano of the Society of Robots website writes, "I wanted to bring to your attention my product release - a microcontroller designed to be simple enough for any...

Here's another round of robot stories to start off the new week. The folks at EPFL let us know they've released a new book, BIO-INSPIRED FLYING ROBOTS Experimental...

The latest episode of the Robots podcast features interviews with two experts in self-reconfiguring and modular robotics. Kasper Støy, famous for his pioneering...

Tom Galluzzo of the OpenJAUS team wrote to let us know that OpenJAUS version 3.3.0 is now available. OpenJAUS is a free software, open source software library and...

The Teaser Trailer for the new Terminator Salvation movie is available. The movie will come out sometime around the summer of 2009 (May?). In the trailer, Christian...

The robot stories have been piling up, so it will probably take a couple of robot roundups this week to get caught up! In the last roundup, we mentioned the robot page...

Hold on to your smart caps: researchers have determined that Robots are deemed less intelligent than humans, still. This study proves conclusively that humans would...

Spike the Ultra Dinosaur walks, roars, snorts and rears up to devour galkers, but only under remote control as sold. Using a Basic Stamp or similar microcontroller, Spike...

Last week we brought you a podcast about a vision of robots beating soccer players. This week, we report the reality of a robot beating humans at air hockey. Designed by...

In 2006, CMU researches began thinking about how to use robot building as a way of boosting technological fluency in middle school girls. They hoped to improve the...

And now it's time for... The Swirling Brain's Top ten really weird yet cool robot stories in the past year. Click through to read The Swirling Brain's top ten list...

Ugobe has instituted a new program aimed at softening the blow of the loss of a Pleo after the 90 day warranty period. They are calling it the Pleo Reincarnation...

The relatively young field of science known as connectomics, which we first reported on earlier this year, has already produced some intriguing new results about the...

A reel of film from Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis containing a section thought to be lost was discovered recently at a cinema museum in Buenos Aires. Claiming the title...

The latest episode of Robots, the podcast for news and views on robotics, takes a look behind the scenes of Robot Soccer. Manuela Veloso, professor at Carnegie Mellon...

Some of you may remember those photos I posted recently of a big robot built from styrofoam packing material that turned up at a local art gallery in Dallas. Well, the...

The Guardian published a piece by Charles Arthur titled, "Artificial intelligence: God help us if machines ever think like people", in which he questions the idea that...

Intel is hinting at the possibility of a future with processors containing hundreds or even thousands of cores. While graphics applications seem to be driving much of...