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November 5, 2015

Could drones be coming to Disney World?

Future visitors to Walt Disney World may come for the rides but stay for the drone show

November 5, 2015

Kanye: A paparazzi drone could electrocute my daughter

Kanye West has added his voice to the controversy over drones, expressing his fears that one of the remote-controlled devices could accidentally electrocute his daughter.

November 5, 2015

I spy an iRobot: Special ops bots in the army

The same company that cleans your rugs and gutters can also defuse a bomb.

November 5, 2015

The cat's meow: try to outrun this robotic feline

Move aside, Grumpy Cat.

November 5, 2015

Smart or smart-ass? IBM’s Watson computer learns to swear

Watson -- the IBM robot that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game -- had to have his memory wiped after he memorized the entire contents of human slang repository UrbanDictionary.com.

November 4, 2015

Boston Dynamics' robotic dog is going through basic training with the Marine Corps

Google and Boston Dynamics' latest robot is now going through basic training with the US Marine Corps, which recently recruited the robodog for field trials, reports Ars Technica.

November 4, 2015

Underwater robots function like schools of fish

Robotics may soon be giving sea life a run for their money. European scientists have created small underwater robots that are capable of not only learning individually but also of interacting and exchanging information as a group — a function known as collective cognition, which is akin to schools of fish. Over the past year, 22 videos have been released by the EU-supported CoCoRo project that show the autonomous robots performing various demonstrations underwater as a group, which is the largest underwater robot swarm to date.

November 4, 2015

Meet Robear, Japan’s robot nurse with the face of a bear

Japan has long been looking at how it might use robots to provide care for the elderly, and with a rapidly aging population, and a birth rate that continues to fall, the issue has taken on growing importance in recent years.

November 4, 2015

UK shifts up a gear with its driverless car ambitions

Believing the driverless car industry could be worth as much as $29 billion by 2025, the U.K. government said Wednesday it wants to go easy on regulating the testing of such vehicles in the hope of pushing research forward at a faster pace.

November 4, 2015

Scientists implant tiny robots inside live mice

Can robots travel inside living animals? It sounds like science fiction, but scientists have just made it a reality by implanting tiny nano-robots inside living mice. Researchers from the Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego, published their report on the first successful tests of implanting micro robots designed to disperse drugs within a body, reports SmithsonianMag.com.