by Robert Beckhusen | Aug 21, 2012 | Monitor
Sure, the military’s headless robotic pack mules and walking robo-zombies look scary, but those bots’ metal limbs are nowhere near as maneuverable as your human arms and legs. Those metal robots can also be really friggin’ heavy. That’s why the...
by Liat Clark, Wired.co.uk | Jul 31, 2012 | Monitor
An engineering team has published a paper revealing that by giving a robot the right tail, it can always land on its feet — just like a cat. The University of Pennsylvania’s Kod*lab appears to have found a way to gracefully circumvent a robot’s...
by Spencer Ackerman | Jul 18, 2012 | Monitor
Protesters in Washington D.C. mock Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity, October 2010. Photo: Flickr/pthread1981 For at least a year, the U.S. has tried to keep Israel from attacking Iran, usually...
by David Axe | Jul 6, 2012 | Monitor
<< Previous | Next >> For 10 sweltering days in mid-June, a small army of crawling, rolling, hopping and hovering robots invaded Ft. Benning, Georgia, a sprawling training post near the Alabama border. The occasion: the U.S....