Using 7,000 bricks and a robot, architects Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler constructed this “infinite loop” in about a months time. This structure is particularly impressive is not only that a robot constructed it, but that only a robot could have constructed it. To make this work each brick had to be laid in a [...]

A team at MIT build an aerial robot that has been programmed to read its surroundings, learn from them and fly the best path through them. It can map out a maze and even fly through windows barely larger than itself.
At a competition, the robot had to fly through a maze and locate a specific [...]

Meet the Scarab. This robot is like the Roomba, but built for heavier-duty cleaning. This is designed to be used in shopping centers or urban streets. It sweeps and cleans up the trash, then locates the nearest trash receptacle that it can use and dumps the trash there. It has two cameras for locating trash [...]

This fantastic 60 Minutes story shows how robotics can change life for the better right now for soldiers that have lost an arm. This incredible prosthetic, in part developed by Dean Kaman of Segway fame, allows soldiers to actually grip items in their hand – even breakable items – just by “thinking” about it. It [...]

iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum for home use and the Packbot for military use is now showing off a brand-new robot: The Chembot.
This robot can shrink and expand according to what is needed for it to get around. If it needs to fit through a small hole, it can just shrink down, get [...]

Yesterday I wrote about how robots that are meant to mimic humans do not yet really look human. Well, while that is still true, Hanson Robotics has created robots that have faces that certainly look human. What makes these robots interesting, however, isn’t just that they look human, but that they are being trained to [...]

The huge Japanese IT and electronics show CEATEC had not only awesome electronic devices on display, but some very cool robots as well.
First up we have a pop-singing robot from Yamaha:

This robot can certainly sing – though as with most robots that have the artificial skin-look, they also look a little freaky. We are certainly [...]