Robotics

A to Z of Robots - An extensive list of robots in film, television and popular culture. This site also contains a Dictionary of Robot related terms.

Big Dog - The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and...

Cute J-Girl Robot in Tokyo, Japan - A cute Japanese female robot talking and moving her hands around. Video shot at the Tokyo International Robot Expo in December of 2005. This robot is calle...

DARPA Gives $32 Million For A Bigger Big Dog - After years of development and several creepy videos, Boston Dynamics' Big Dog robot is scheduled to get bigger. Working off a $32 million request from DAR...

Domo Robot Helping with Chores - The MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robot Domo helps a person with everyday chores.

Domo robot overview - The MIT CSAIL humanoid robot Domo being Domo.

DVICE - Robotics Archives - A source of news and an archive of many robot related stories.

Exploring the Earth's Abyss: Robotic Expedition Reveals an Alien World - Two recent deep-sea explorations have paved the way for our understanding of our planet's extreme environments and what life forms might be like on other p...

GeckoSystems - GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (GOSY.PK) is a leading developer of mobile service robots (MSR's) based in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Our focus is family care...

HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) from Cyberdine - HAL 5 or Hybrid Assistive Limb 5 is a robot suit (aka artificial powered exoskeleton) developed by Yoshiyuki Sankai who is the professor of Tsukuba Univers...

HRP-4C fashion model robot - The HRP-4C, a walking, talking humanoid fashion model fembot developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)...

Ladies & Robots - Something about a pretty girl in the company of an imposing robot spoke very dearly to the hearts of readers and movie-goers of the Fifties' Space Era. Chr...

Most Famous Robots - The Humanoid Robot - A huge list of humanoid robots with links and images.

Nxtbot - A blog covering the world of consumer and personal robotics. Launched in January of 2006, Nxtbot.com is a blog and Web site dedicated to providing news,...

Official Johnny 5 Blueprint website - Here you will be able to see our progress on the work we're doing on the robot and share engineering knowledge on how to construct your Johnny 5. We a...

Pleo Robotic Dinosaur Maker Goes Bankrupt - After months of teetering on the brink, Ugobe, maker of the the green, scaly, rubbery Pleo dinosaurs has taken its last breath. The company has fired al...

RiSE: The Amazing Climbing Robot - RiSE is a small six-legged robot that climbs vertical terrain such as walls, trees and fences. RiSE’s feet have claws, micro-claws or sticky material, de...

Robot Has Biological Brain - Scientists have created a robot controlled by a biological brain made of rat neurons. The robot, named Gordon, is not exactly an Einstein but represent...

Robots - the big picture - Robotic systems continue to evolve, slowly penetrating many areas of our lives, from manufacturing, medicine and remote exploration to entertainment, secur...

Robots Podcast - Robots is the podcast for news and views on robotics. In addition to insights from high-profile professionals, Robots will take you for a ride through the ...

Roger Arrick Robotics - Ever since I was knee-high to a solenoid, taking things apart, learning how they worked, and building machines has been part of my inner being. Starting wi...

Society of Robots - Lots of useful robotics information - hardware, books, a forum, programming and tutorials.

The Friendliest Little Autonomous Explorer - Your mother told you never to speak to strangers, but what if the stranger was a robot on wheels, who was lost and needed your help? Thirty-eight people in...

Toyota Humanoid Robot Runs At 7 Km/hr - Props to the guys over at smart-machines for digging up an awesome video (see below) of the Toyota humanoid robot running at 7 Km/hr (4 mph), besting Asimo...

Toyota Robot Maid Designed to Learn from Past Failures - A robot jointly designed by the University of Tokyo and the Toyota Motor Corporation is designed to do the chores a lot of people would opt out of doing if...

UAV Helicopter Brings Finesse to Airstrikes - One shot, one kill, zero pilot. That's the goal of the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System, a new unmanned helicopter that's controlled with an adapted Xbo...

World's first Cyborg (video) - The further adventures of a rat brain in a robot...