WHAT do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion of their work to medical robots controlled from computer consoles. Many ...

I, for one, welcome our new robot masters…

In the opening instalment, Kaku explains how artificial intelligence will revolutionise homes, workplaces and lifestyles, and how virtual worlds will become so realistic that they will rival the physical world. Robots with human-level intelligence may finally become a reality, and in the ultimate stage of mastery, we'll even be ...

Future air battles may be fought by robots with minimum human input. The MoD is spending £124 million developing a prototype of Britain's first unmanned bomber. Geoff Meade reports.

The father of vehicular robotics explains the DARPA Urban Challenge, how to crawl through caves and what his robot for exploring the moon might look like.

Artificial Evolution - A Segment from a program in NG that discusses the possibilities of the AI and human enhancements in future.

New robot designs inspired by biology.

Crossposted from advancednano.blogspot.com Quote from Deathrace 2000. Machine Gun Joe VeTurbo: Frankenstein! You want Frankenstein? I'll give you Frankenstein! [Joe opens fire into the stands] From the times Online, the creation of insects (moths) whose flesh grows around computer parts – known from science fiction as ...

Battle bots are teaching us how easily we identify our own creations as animate....

Robots that use educated guesswork to build maps of their surroundings are being tested by Purdue University researchers. The approach could let them navigate more easily through complex environments such as unfamiliar buildings....