Spykee is an odd little $300 robot “toy” that’s everything from a webcam to digital music player to VoIP phone and can be controlled via WiFi. Spykee ships with software that allows it to be ...

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter wide. Such tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, ...

We've seen our share of running robots, both two-legged and four-legged — but this six-legged bot with the look of a wagon wheel is surely a first. Don't be fooled by the tumbleweed-like motion, ...

World Extreme Challenge successfully concluded on December 7 on the campus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. A team ...

First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. The hybrid 'eBiobots' are the first to combine soft materials, living muscle and ...

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a use for virtual reality headsets that goes beyond firing them up, checking out a new game, muttering “cool” briefly ...

Imagine walking into a Disney theme park and being greeted by Mike from Monsters Inc. A life-size Mike, perfectly spherically-proportioned on those spindly legs. Fitting a human into a costume like ...

Toyota has announced that its humanoid-size robot, the T-HR3, has been controlled successfully through a wireless connection. An improvement on previous generations, a wirelessly controlled T-HR3 is ...

[Patrick] wanted a remote control to control some of the robots he’s built. He also wanted to get some data back from his robots, so an inexpensive off-the-shelf solution wouldn’t be up to the task.