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IRobot Corp. may dust off plans for an oil-industry robot as the maker of Roomba home vacuums and battlefield bomb-disposers considers adding a third division to diversify into industrial markets, two of its ...

BERLIN &#151 The European Commission will invest 400M euros in European robotics research between 2007 and 2010, representing a doubling of the previous 4-year investment, according to a recent EC announcement.

Armed robots are the latest weapon of war and they don't fight fair, writes James Bloom.

Gas prices have auto manufacturers rushing to make cars smaller, but Bruce Donald drives vehicles so tiny you need a microscope just to see one.

Data collection technology provider Vernier Software & Technology has announced several new offerings for the education market, including free Logger Lite and LabQuest Emulator software, a new NXT sensor ...

"TIGA," the new high-tech imaging center at the University of Heidelberg founded in cooperation with the Japanese company Hamamatsu, provides deep insights: a high-tech robot makes it possible for the first ...

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What does a soccer team, a colony of bees and giant creepy, crawly spider have in common? They're all robotic!

In addition to an expected increase in sales to the U.S. military, iRobot says it will see growth in its unmanned robot platforms from foreign buyers.

QIAGEN N.V. today announced that it has acquired Corbett Life Science Pty. Ltd. , a privately-held developer, manufacturer, and distributor of life sciences instrumentation headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Sex not as exciting as it used to be? Getting turned on may be as easy as flicking a switch on your lifelike programmable robot.

Squeezable chemical robots designed to mimic caterpillars may one day be used to sneak through tight spots before expanding to 10 times their size, then biodegrade once a task is finished.

Robots attack - Students learn programming, engineering Photo by Nathan L. McBroom Kyle Hillebrand watched his robot on Wednesday afternoon.

WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from 1.5 billion to 15.5 billion, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike ...

The Box-Office Top Five #1 "WALL-E" #2 "Wanted" #3 "Get Smart" #4 "Kung Fu Panda" #5 "The Incredible Hulk" Little boys like Pixar; big boys like Angelina Jolie.

The only human dialogue spoken during the first half of "WALL-E" comes in the form of a nearly 700-year-old advertisement for a luxury cruise to space.

Main Category: IT / Internet / E-mail Also Included In: Medical Students / Training A computer science Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback.

Buried under thick ice and frigid water, volcanic explosions are shaking the Arctic Ocean floor at depths previously thought impossible, according to a new study.

U.S. researchers said they've created microscopic robots that can dance on a surface smaller than a pin head.

Gajus Worthington, CEO of Fluidigm, in a lab at the company's South San Francisco offices Tuesday June 24, 2008.