ROBOTICS

The new trend in machines of war is "smaller is better" -- and their designers draw more from the world of nature than "Transformers."

Researchers at the University of Arizona claim to have invented a pair of robotic legs that mimic the human gait better than any other artificial leg.

Partial paraplegics can control a robot using thought, according to a demonstration at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology on Tuesday.

Iran has recovered data from the unmanned American drone that crashed near the Afghan border last year, and is using the information to reverse-engineer its own spy plane, the Islamic Republic announced on Sunday.

Sex robots will be the wave of the future, according to two New Zealand researchers who say robot prostitutes will revolutionize the sex industry by 2050. But the future is already here with RoxxxyPillow - a discreet, new sex robot that you don't need deep pockets to own.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced a five-year research initiative that will eventually enable people to design personalized robots, then have those robots built using three-dimensional printers.

Very little is known about the oceans. Researchers are trying to change that through the use of underwater robots.

Scientists in the U.S. have invented a robotic underwater which is inspired by jellyfish. The robot powers itself with sea water.

NASA's Robonaut did some handshaking at the International Space Station.

Welcome to the world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and their dystopian implications.

A British woman, Claire Lomas, who was paralyzed in an accident nearly five years ago, is aiming to use a robotic exoskeleton to help her compete in the London marathon in April.

Las Vegas -- There are many weird yet pricey offerings at the 2012 International CES, but none more so than in the robot section of the consumer electronics show.

Scientists at the Intelligent Autonomous System Group of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed two robots which are capable of making and serving snacks, sandwiches, coffee and much more, it has been reported.

Honda shows new ASIMO robot, which responds to commands.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley,used robot models that could play a useful role in studying the origins of flight to overcome limitations of fossil evidences. The engineering team behind DASH+Wings integrated their study with that of Dr. Robert Dudley, a professor of integrative biology and an animal flight expert at UC Berkeley.

MABEL, a two-legged robot that runs like a human being, is believed to be the world's fastest bipedal robot with knees, hitting a peak pace of 6.8 miles per hour.

A group of flying, rolling Robots called as Swarmanoids stole the limelight and won the best video award at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Video Competition 2011 last week.

Here are a few mind blowing videos of Humanoid Robots walking, dancing, climbing stairs, even talking and responding. The videos are a collection from a couple of years back till the recent ones.

The Defense Research Projects Agency is testing Thursday an unmanned aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound, up to 13,000 miles per hour, and send a missile to a target within an hour. If successful, it will be fast enough to travel from coast to coast (between Los Angeles and New York) in just 12 minutes.

A Google spokesperson said human error, and not a technical malfunction, led to a minor fender bender near the company's California headquarters.

Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a robot that can think, act and adapt to a changing situation.