The Wiimote Will Control Real Military Robots
	Science and video games often go hand in hand and it seems natural to be this way since it's all about technology, after all. The PlayStation 3 consoles are already used at research centers and things are not going to stop. It seems that even the most casual game-related ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Teach Robots to Read
	There can be no doubt about it, technology has began moving at the speed of light, while humanity is trying to keep its pace. Yes, I know that the very same humans are to "blame" for the pace at which things are going, but it’s a delicate topic, one that has too long been debated by religious groups and science communities, to name just two. A hundred years ago, we couldn’t even take off for a certain flight that wouldn’t end in ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 20:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Military Intelligence: iRobot PackBot Finds Jesus If It Has To!
	After years of advanced research and development, iRobot can finally release its new PackBot with Mapping Kit robot, specially designed to help the soldiers manage potentially dangerous situations, involving surveillance, search and other missions, without loosing their lives. The news is even better, as the PackBot is the first field tested and deployed bot to actually integrate a complex mapping system, as well as semi-auton ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tokyo Steel RAW: 100% Amateur Robots Fight For Supremacy!
	If you are among the robot aficionados, then you'd love this for sure. During Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, the robotic hell broke loose. Reuters reports on thousands of mini bots that sang, barked, kicked and more, all just to be voted the world's robo-champ. The Championship gathered a lot of two-legged robots, but only the best ones actually made it among the twenty-five finalists, where t ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 02:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

US Army New Fetish: Armed Robots!
	Street fights, sea hunt or secret development seem to be not enough for some evil minded robo addicts. It's not a secret anymore that the latest technology allows the cars to drive by themselves these days. And the next fetish in the robotic vehicle industry is to equip those with real ammunition, just like giving Robosapien new toys. Wired reports about this new trend in the robotic world. As romantic as it may sound, the Black Kn ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 08:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Breaking News: British Army Tests Invisible Tanks!
	It seems that the British Army is testing a couple of monster gadgets in its attempts to develop the 100% invisible tank. The breaking news was disclosed by the Ministry of Defence, during secret trials last week. The official representatives said that the army has successfully managed to make a vehicle disappear. What’s even more shocking is that they also announced that a completely invisible tank will be ready for some act ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 08:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Robot's New Era! Wowwee and Evolution Robotics Promise Ultimate Gen of Mass Bots!
	Good news, geeks! Two of the giant fish in the robotic industry, Wowwee and Evolution Robotics, announced their intention of joining forces and launching a new category of entertainment robots, functional robots and robotic toys, covering a wider area in the field. Still, there is no official word on what the product’s main target is going to be. All the official representatives know is that at least three products are planned for rele ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MAARSbots, Transform! Not Just Scrap Metal!
	As Sky Linx would say, "Save your ammunition, Autobots! Superior forces are taking over!" Well, there are never too many "Transformers" bots rolling out from the hidden alien factories. Therefore, some heavy names in the robotic industry, such as the manufacturer of the famous Talon and Swords robots have recently introduces their new project. This time they came up with a cool new Modular Advanced Armed R ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Shock in The Robotic Industry! iRobot "Helps" U.S. Army Deploy PackBots Killing Squad!
	Shock in the robotic industry! One of the leading forces in the industry, iRobot, has recently announced it has received a delivery order totaling up to 8.8 million bucks from...guess who! Yeah...from the US Army itself, to be more precise, the money involves the Army Program executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation...for defense, of course... As you're probably wondering about the precise type of the order, it ... [read more >>]
	16 October 2007, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Jingle Jugs Animatronic Singing and Dancing Boobs
	Turning a woman's image into a sexual object is not a very civilized thing to do at all, but, unfortunately, this is happening all around the world. And while some examples of this situation are rather improper to display, that's not quite the case with Jingle Jugs presented by the people over at BaronBob, a device that replicates a pair of boobs behaving in the strangest possible manner. According to the vendor, th ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Here Comes the Husqvarna Lawnmower Man...Err, Robot!
	Household robots are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, as they are capable of carrying out various tasks on their own, without any serious human intervention. And that seems to be exactly the case with the Auto Mower developed by Husqvarna, a device that can take care of the user's lawn without requiring any intervention or guidance. Thus, before starting up the robot, all the users have to do is establish a bounda ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The New Roomba Vacuumbots are Finally Here! iRobot Unleashes the 500 Series
	iRobot really hit the jackpot when it came up with the Roomba vacuuming robots back in 2002, thus opening the way for a whole new generation of more or less intelligent appliances meant to make the people's lives a lot easier. However, as of 2004, the Roombas received only minor changes or updates, without any major changes being applied to their otherwise very reliable and sturdy platform. However, the manufacturing company has decid ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 11:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PicoBotz DIY Looks Pretty Wussy for a Futuristic Robot...Good to Chase Fat Cats!
	There is no doubt this is the robots era. And to prove this, some brainy fellows have come up with Pico Botz, which is more like a replica of the Megabyte fighting bot, rather than Robosapien's cheap copycat. PicoBotz is a programmable built for your robot, meaning it waits for the PC's instructions to function. And since the manufacturers claim this steel enraged-looking bot can be fed up to 180 different instructio ... [read more >>]
	16 August 2007, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Man Vs Machine, Round 1! First Armed "Terminator" Robots Deployed in Iraq!
	Oh My God! It's not like it wasn't expected or anything, but this time, it's for real. Cold steeled killing machines robots were seen on the streets of Iraq ever since the war began, but they weren’t carrying guns. Until now. It takes years of development, millions of dollars and a lot of sick evil minds to do this. It's true, this killing way is economic, it's blood free and mostly quite efficient ag ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Household Robots Like ASIMO Take Tai Chi Lessons to Improve Agility
	Today's robots need to be pre-programmed in order to handle themselves around the house, but this kind of software has its limitations, combined with the physical limitations of the robots themselves. Unfortunately the technology is not so advanced, yet, to allow them to go by themselves and really perform all the boring chores around the house to help the owners. In other words, they're clumsy. For example, Roomba, the littl ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2007, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Linux Powered Robots to Compete This Year in Atlanta at RoboCup Competition
	RoboCup 2007 is probably the most significant robotic competition in the world. This year, this prestigious competition is held in Atlanta during July 01-07. This would be the eleventh such event and one of the special aspects related to it would be the fact that now there will be at least two Linux-based designs. There has been said that some of the competing teams had their robots built on top of Sony's AIBO ( ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World Cup 2007 for Nanobots
	Football, or soccer, as it is known outside Europe, is the king of sports on the continent. The World Cup is held every 4 years and the next one will take place in South Africa, in 2010. But there's another world cup scheduled this year, where this sport is hoped to attract a lot of fans. Nanofootball or nanosoccer is the latest in nanoscale robotics. That's just to prove that science is not all that boring and not ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

US Congressmen Have Robots on Their Minds
	Robots are already growing in complexity and their use in industry is becoming more widespread. Humanoid robots are about to become reality sooner than you think, and as you would expect, they will feature superhuman characteristics, like heightened senses, physical strength and computational abilities. It seems even the US Congress realized that, and Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Zach Wamp (R-TN) announced yesterday that they' ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Where Are the Robots?
	Robots have been part of human imagination for longer than you think. Though the modern science-fiction literary genre has made them so famous that they've become universal brands, like "Robocop", "Terminator", "Data", "R2-D2" or "iRobot", they have been present in mythology long before. You have probably seen, or at least heard of some movies that depict the never-ending theme of ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2007, 12:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Hubo FX-1 Robot Goes Mecha on Your Armchair
	I don't know about you, but I used to be a great fan of the mecha mange genre (you know, those animated series with huge robots that ran around, saving the world from evil forces, that sort of things), and it looks like there are plenty of hardcore fans out there as well, especially in Asian countries (where this genre originated, after all), that want to do more than watch cartoons: they want to turn them into reality. ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 01:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Elios Robot Rescues the Wounded
	No more 'English Patient' nurses (coming down from choppers) to save you from war zones and natural disaster sites. Robots like this one will probabably approach the wounded rapidly, grab them, and flee from the scene just as fast to take the rescued victims to the nearest hospitals. It can reach impassable land areas where humans have troubles getting to. Designed by Marcos Nolan, the Elios is a spider-like robot th ... [read more >>]
	01 May 2007, 02:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Linux-Powered Robots
	Robots have always been a controversial matter. Artificially created things which are able to make decisions on their own based on some kind of environmental sensors made the subject of many technological and engineering researches in time. The first record of a mechanical artificial agent man-created dates from 1738, when Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck able to eat, grain, flap its wings and excrete. In time, robots ha ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 03:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SUGV Early: the New Reconnaissance Robot Will be out by 2008
	Boeing and iRobot are planning to build the next generation of reconnaissance robots for military, civil and commercial use. The reason why Boeing enter this joined venture is pretty clear: the Pentagon needs smarther robots than the Packbock. The little guy is going to be built on iRobot's Packbot robotic military platform which already proved its utility in war zones like Afghanistan. Unlike the Packbot, which is used ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2007, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Armored Core 4 Glitches (Playstation 3)
	The world experienced a period of rapid population growth, which put a strain on global food and energy supplies. As populations increased, so did the gap between the wealthy and the poor, and so did the unrest between the classes. Eventually, violence began to erupt and the governments quickly lost control of their populations as their cities were consumed by terrorism and anarchy. People began turning to corporations, complete with priva ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mechanical Robots Walk Using Wind Power
	Theo Jansen is a contemporary artist who decided to give robots a real life. The Kinetic Sculptor, the Dutch engineer turned artist, studied science at the University of Delft (The Netherlands). He gave up school to become a painter. Then, in 1980, he built a big flying saucer which could fly (really). The thing had 15 ft, flashing lights, beep sounds and flew over Delft. He also designed a light sensitive spray-gun which can ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NEC Robot to Bring About The End of All Bloggers?
	Even if up until now a world where humans had been driven extinct by a new race of machines was to be found only in Sci-Fi flicks or novels, it would seem that this horrific image might, at some point, turn into a harsh reality. And the first people to experience this tragedy might actually be those people who feed us with the latest news/personal experiences/rumors/etc. on a daily basis (yes, I'm referring to bloggers), since the Jap ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2007, 02:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia