Back in the old days, a particular product would come down a conveyor. A person or people would take items off of the conveyor and place it in  a box or other appropriate packaging. This concept was so iconic that it was used in everything from I Love Lucy to Laverne and Shirley.
This image, however, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Look out gym trainers, General Robotix, Inc has a robot ready to replace you. Well, almost.
According to Pink Tentacle, Taizo is a robot that can help teach people how to properly stretch. It can operate for 2 hours per charge. Taizo can respond to voice commands, provided those voice commands are about exercise and not, [...]

In another step closer to 2015 and the takeover of jobs by robots, New York City has brought in a robot to mow the lawn in front of City Hall. A job that was done by humans until now, the Husqvarna Automower 230 ACX is currently on loan to the city so they can see [...]

This underground parking structure in Japan is able to hold 800 bicycles in a very small space. However, that is only part of what makes it incredible. The cyclist will put their bike in the entrance of the parking garage. A card will then be given to the cyclist. When the cyclist returns, he just [...]

One thing that seems to have been lacking in the world of robotics is the ability for delicate, dexterous and most importantly dynamic hand-like manipulation. Over at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory they are working on exactly that with surprising and somewhat freaky results.

This amazing unit can dribble a ball, use tweezers to pick up a [...]

So let’s say a group of robots needed “food” to survive. Whenever they find food, they not only go to “eat” it, but signal others that food is there.
Of course, this triggers more robots to show up. What if too many robots show up to feed and there isn’t enough food? Would the robots learn [...]

Harvard has just announced the receipt of a grant that will allow them to develop and build robots based off of bees. From the press release:
A multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, and biologists at Harvard received a $10 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Expeditions in Computing grant to fund the development of small-scale mobile [...]

Over at Atlantic Monthly Mike Konczal is bringing up a question we have brought up before as well – are robots eliminating an entire class of worker (unskilled labor)?
I highly recommend reading this article. He brings up excellent points about why we are not perceiving this as a threat (robots are dull, not sexy/visibly dangerous [...]