Robots Podcast #130: Autonomous lethal weapons

In episode #130, interviewer AJung talks with Pete

Ready for the Official Arduino Robot?

Via FreeIO.org comes news of a new open hardware robot: the official Arduino Robot. The Arduino Robot will be on s

Robots Podcast #129: Controlled flight of insect-sized rob

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Best Robot Photos of the Week

This edition of best robot photos of the week includes an Officer Mac robot from the Computer History Muse

Robo Raven Achieves Bird-like Flight

Ornithopers have been around for many years and robots based on the concept are not new. But, according to a UMD n

Autonomous military robots should be banned, group says (video)

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots tells CNET why lethal machines must remain under human control, for humanity's sake.

Originally posted at <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-57581390-42/a

Intelligence from Causal Entropic Forces

You may recall our 2012 story, The Universe, The Internet, and the Brain about a paper identifying similarities betw

Remote Guidance of Untrained Turtles - (watch video)

Recently, several studies have been carried out on the direct control of behavior in insects and other lower animals in order to apply these behaviors to the performance of specialized tasks in an attempt to find more efficient means of carrying out these tasks than artificial intelligence agents.

Random Robot Roundup

I returned from a few days at the VEX Robotics World Championship to find our inbox full of news, so let's start things back up with a news roundup! (and, yes, pics of the VEX championship will be posted in a few days).

Robots Podcast #128: Ethical/Social/Legal Issues

In Robots Po

UAVs for Weather and Environmental Research

Researchers at the University of Virginia are testing UAVs as potential replacements for weather balloons which co

Language and Spatio-temporal Cognition

We're all familiar with the checkered history of the Whorf Hypothesis; the idea that a person's worldview and cognition are limited by their language. At first it was widely accepted, to t

Roborobo! A Fast Robot Swarm Simulator

Looking for a multi-platform, portable, and fast simulator for large-scale robot swarm and collective projects? Lo

Best Robot Photos of the Week

This edition of best robot photos of the week includes a rare bubble-faced RoboBrrd, ROGER the Recycled Obj

Robohub.org focuses on jobs

Here is Managing Editor Hallie Siegel introducing Robohub's week of focus on the interrelationship between robotics and jobs.

For the next week, Robohub will host a special focus on

Random Robot Roundup

Robohub coverage of We Robot

We Robot: Getting Down to Business is the title of the 2nd annu

Robots Podcast #127: Software marketplace

In episode #127 (April 5th,

DARPA Reveals Shark Sub-Hunting Robot

DARPA issued a news release today with some photos of the Phase II prototypes for the SHARK (Submarine Hold At Ris

UAVs for Agricultural Weed Control

Posted 3 Apr 2013 at 19:17 UTC by steve Precision Agriculture is a hot topic these days as researchers look for ways to reduce the massive amounts of chemicals that are currently sprayed on food crops. A new research paper describes one of the ways robots may help in Early Season Site-Specific Weed Management (ESSWM).