Kuka Robot Competition Offers 20,000-Euro Award
The German company is organizing a competition based on its youBot robot
PR2 Learns Pick and Place Skills, Gives Baxter a Run for Its Way Less Money
This is the fastest we have ever seen a PR2 move
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3-D Printing Movie Props
CGI isn’t the only tech on the digital frontier of special effects
Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist
A Georgia Tech professor of robotics argues automation is still creating more jobs than it destroys
Clearpath Robotics Announces Grizzly Robotic Utility Vehicle
Unmanned Ground Vehicles don't get much more serious than this
Solar Robots, 4K TVs Spring Forward
Plus: the Woz-Cave and Waterproof Nanocoatings
Startup Spotlight: Robotiq Makes Robot Tooling for Agile Manufacturing
This Canadian start-up wants to help transform industrial robotics
Robot Yeti Tells You Where Not to Go in Antarctica
It's missing the hair and the giant feet, but the Yeti rover is right at home in Antarctica
DFKI's Space Rovers and Hexapods Will Team Up on Other Planets
A hexapod-laden rover is destined to search for water in lunar craters
NASA Now Has Robot Gas Station for Space, Robot Miner for the Moon
NASA shows off two more examples of why space robots are such a great idea
Opportunity Rover Begins Tenth (!) Year On Mars
Nine years and no maintenance later, Opportunity is still doing science on Mars
Video Friday: Bosch and Cars, ROVs and Whales, and Kuka Arms and Chainsaws
One way to guarantee that your robot ends up on Video Friday: give it a chainsaw
Adept Introduces Lynx Autonomous Mobile Platform
Meet Adept's newest mobile robot
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Startup Spotlight: Industrial Perception Building 3D Vision Guided Robots
This Willow Garage spin-off wants to build the world's best robot vision system
Submersible Robotic Fishoplane Can Swim for Hundreds of Kilometers
It may look like a jet fighter, but Grace is a robotic fish designed to sniff out pollution underwater
Toshiba Unveils Robot for Disaster Response
Is this Japan's answer to BigDog?
Clearpath Robotics Introduces Kingfisher M200
Clearpath brings their new autonomous maritime platform to IROS
Photo Gallery: Snake Robots, Humanoids, Drones, and More
Check out a bunch of pics of robots from the IROS 2012 Expo floor
Firefighting Robot is $100k of Cute n' Foamy
Got fire? Get robot
Wall-Ye Robot Is In Your Vineyard, Prunin' Your Vines
A plucky French robot is ready to help out in your vineyard
Infographic: Robots & Automation in U.S. Manufacturing
An infographic from Kuka Robotics describes the benefits of automation, Rethink Robotics smiles and nods
Rethink Robotics Announces Baxter Robot Helper, We Go Hands-On in Boston
Automaton gets special access to Rethink Robotics' new factory helper robot, Baxter
Mobile Robots Turn Solar Panels to Follow the Sun
Startup QBotix says robots can boost efficiency of solar energy.
Wave Glider Robot Takes On the Final Frontier in Hurricane Prediction
Liquid Robotics launches a Wave Glider to improve forecasts of hurricane intensity.
Meet the Very First Rover to Land on Mars
It didn't get anywhere, but the Soviets put a robotic rover on Mars in 1971
Revenge of “The Turk”
Computers can easily beat any human at chess, but only now can they actually move the pieces
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NASA Testing Rover to Prospect for Water on the Moon
RESOLVE might soon travel to the Moon, Mars, or an asteroid to search for resources
UAV Battery Packs Could Allow Electric Planes To Fly Forever
UAVs full of batteries that dock with electric aircraft in flight may make transcontinental battery-powered flight possible
CMU's AndyVision Robot Is In Your Store, Doing Your Inventory
This hoodie-clad robot is taking over in Carnegie Mellon's campus bookstore
Heartland Robotics Now Rethink Robotics, Still Developing Mystery Industrial Robot
Heartland changes its name to Rethink, scores a bunch of new capital, and promises to unveil a new robot before 2013
Robots To Stay Very Far Away From: Ham De-boning Arm
Boning ham is a tedious, repetitive task. Perfect for a robot!