Hobbyists and professionals invited to simulated robotics challenge.

Sarah Kidner explores our fascination with robots, looks at their past and ponders the robotic future. What have a Czech playwright, 15th century artist Leonardo da Vinci and the future o

Build your own robot explorer.

Humanoid robots could also take robotics back to the factory floor in the 21st century. Theres a very pragmatic engineering reason to build humanoid robots, and thats because most of our environment h

Isaac Asimov would approve.

The perennial kids’ favourite evolves into an exciting gateway to advanced engineering

Spybotics isn't the general-purpose robotics kit of Mindstorms, but it offers similar fun.

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Corporates muscle in on competition.

Fictional depictions such as these are startlingly accurate, since sci-fi has paved the way for our acceptance of each generation of robots. Capeks prophecies were fulfilled when robots made their fir

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Helps you walk even when you are legless.

The rise of the machines.

Arctic Monkeys flashback to 1984.

World robot Olympics start today.

Backroom boffins in the US Army have decided that robots will be better at warfare if they have a built in guilt system.

University wins $14m contract for autonomous vehicle.

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Reaching the places where human beings cant travel would later propel robotic arms millions of miles away from the factory floor. It started with the creation of the six-jointed, robotic Stanford Arm,