ROBOTS

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.

A research team from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium won an award for its swarmanoid, a group of three types of robots.

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.

Google has been involved in a car accident with another vehicle while operating its automated robot car. The Google Prius was reported to have rear ended several cars including another Toyota Prius. The tech giant claims that the accident occurred while the car engine was switched to manual mode saying the automated robot was not responsible.

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

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three years, to cope with rising labor costs.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three years, to cope with rising labor costs.

Foxconn has announced that it would be replacing its workers with 1 million robots in the coming three years.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in its China factories, plans to use 1 million robots within the next three years to replace workers performing some simple procedures, its chairman said.

In an ongoing rivalry between Apple's iPhone and Android, Google can uphold bragging rights as becoming the first smartphone to have assisted NASA astronauts on a space flight mission. Having its Nexus One powered Android OS programmed to spherical robots; the devices were launched into space aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Once deployed, it assisted astronauts in surveying routine maintenance work.

Could the next American Idol winner be... a robot?

Climate scientists have turned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy robotic measuring devices in the Indian Ocean where pirates have made the area too dangerous for researchers.

We have built machines capable of summoning the artificial intelligence needed to defeat a human on 'Jeopardy,' but grocery shopping is still beyond their metallic grasp.

For your average robot, chess may be easy compared to simple everyday activities like frying a sausage, but that may be about to change thanks to software being developed by scientists in Germany.

Scientists have designed a pair of robots which have the ability to communicate with each other using their own set of generated language, a report said

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) released new video, where robots are being deployed at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in order to measure radiation levels and other conditions after the recent earthquake in Japan.

Robots will take over the Smithsonian next week during National Robotics Week

Robots from the United States are getting ready to help Japanese workers cope with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Robots are helping plant workers monitor the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants.

Advancements in technology have allowed many things to become smaller. One of them is flying robots.