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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...
Black Phoenix Project
The 'Black Phoenix Project' is an ongoing concept design exploration centered around the idea of a fictional robotics corporation that develops its product...
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 Icon
The MIT CSAIL Humanoid Robot Domo helps a person with everyday chores.
Domo robot overview Icon
The MIT CSAIL humanoid robot Domo being Domo.
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 Icon
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 Icon
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,...
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...
Robohub
Robohub is a non-profit online communication platform that brings together experts in robotics research, start-ups, business, and education from across the...
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 Icon
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 (Rat Brain) Icon
The further adventures of a rat brain in a robot... AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deem...
YARP
YARP is plumbing for robot software. It is a set of libraries, protocols, and tools to keep modules and devices cleanly decoupled. It is reluctant middlewa...