Meet Giger. This homebuilt robot stands at a very impressive 2 feet tall and can walk around as if he owns whatever room he is in.
Which it might.
Giger is controlled bia Bluetooth and runs on an embedded version of Linux knows as Buildroot.
It also has a moving red eye like a Cylon. So you know [...]

As I wrote about yesterday, we went to the Kettering FIRST competition this past Saturday. It was incredible fun. However, as much fun as the game was and as fascinating as the robots were, even more fun and interesting were the students behind the robots.
We had a chance to walk around the “pit” area, where [...]

When fellow Robots – For The Win! writer Bryan English and I decided to attend and cover the robotics competition at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan we had no idea what we were in for. Oh sure, we knew there would be high school students that built robots for some specific task, but to summarize [...]

The US Military is holding a Robotics Rodeo, giving robot inventors a chance to show off what they have. Specifically it is the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)and Fort Hood III Corps that is holding this event. The Military is seeking robots that can do everything from perform reconnaissance to [...]

Using robots as a part of surgical procedure is certainly something that is gaining widespread acceptance. After all, a robot can be very precise, the surgeon doesn’t even need to be in the same room (lowering risk of infection) and can operate in small spaces.  You can see a video of a surgeon practicing with [...]

In order for robots to be useful in some of the more complex tasks out there, they will need a lot of “skills”. One of these is fine-finger skills. The ability to grasp is good – the ability to push buttons in a particular sequence, pick up small objects and manipulate them is better. Another [...]

MacGregor Campbell over at New Scientist reports on how groups of scientists are working on a universal robot operating system (called ROS).
This system, they say, would allow for far greater advances in robotic technology, because rather than starting from scratch every time someone goes to construct a robot, the basic controlling code will exist – [...]

Over at Let’s Make Robots, they have a neat piece up about an Arduino powered robot that can metal detect for you! The TB-007 sports a simple design, hacked hand-held metal detector and a mounted cam so your coin-collecting uncle can stay in the camper while the robot roams for beach loot.

The demo videos are [...]

This incredible article in Signal Online talks about how there are research teams working on programmable matter.
This matter could be programmed to flow under doors and into other tight openings, then assemble itself into a needed object. For example, one team is working on a wrench that could disassemble itself and then reassemble into a [...]

Over at Wired, Priya Ganapati has written an excellent article on a robot that plays music. Which, in and of itself might not seem that exciting. I mean, anyone who has been to Disney World or has gone to Chuck E. Cheese has seen animatronic robots signing away about presidents, history and cheesy pizza. The Cybraphon, however, is something totally different.