The 2005 World Expo (formerly the World’s Fair, famous for once introducing the world to ice cream cones and also communism) in Japan will be greeting its guests with robots when it opens later this ...

Installations of new robots set a record and peaked in 2005, with 126,700 new units, 30 percent more than were installed in 2004, and nearly 13 percent more than the 110,600 industrial robots that are ...

The idealistic robot Rodney Copperbottom heads to the city, dreaming of becoming an inventor like his hero Bigweld. Bigweld's company holds sway over the robot world, but its once friendly philosophy ...

Purdue University will sponsor a nine-day tribute to robotics during two separate events open to the public March 10-19. The first event features ASIMO, which Honda Motor Co. created and bills as the ...

Watching the original “Star Wars” movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2. After enduring plenty of lean years chasing ...

Imagine if your car’s park distance control, radar cruise control, night vision and that little backup camera (that shows the trash cans you’re about to run over) all conspired with your navigation ...