If, like us, you’ve ever had the deep pining associated with wanting to build a robot or two, this book is definitely for you. This 360-page guide to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about robots covers how they work and how to build your own. You’ll learn how to select the right power source, use the tools you’ll need and how to build a robot from things you have around the house or from kit form.

Robot, heal thyself.

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

Theres another, equally important, purpose to making humanoids such as Cog human: interaction with other human beings. For human/robot interaction, its good to have something that looks vaguely human

If I'd seen one of these when I was an 8 year old, I would have gone on a hunger-strike until my parents bought me one.

An on screen programmable robot . Rommy Robot is useful for teaching Shape, Position and Movement ...

It really must be the future if we have robot pets.

Humanoid robots arent a new concept. Perhaps the first appearance of a humanoid robot was Elektro, who appeared at the 1939 World Trade Fair in New York. Elektro danced, counted to ten, smoked and rav

Learn to program a small robot

Earlier walking robots had a more serious side: to discover more about the human brain. Shakey, for example, emerged from the Stanford Research Institute (now SRIs artificial intelligence centre) in 1

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

Ninja robot combats GLFighters is a 3D game with essentially 2D gameplay where you control a GLFigh...

Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs - it helps you rapidly find programs or documen...

Aarons studio is in a modern purpose-built block on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. Canvases are stacked ten- or 12-deep, others fill the racks at the back of the room. It could be any artists studio any

Play a soccer match against a team of robots. Beat the robot team and prove that men play better f...

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

Combats with giant robots on strange planets. Obviously inspired by combat scenes from the film '&q...

Arnie returns for more robot carnage.

Godzilla versus the rest of the world. This little game in very primitive 3D (the objects are not m...

A Robotron Clone. In this game, similar to Smash TV and Robotron, you play a super agent who must d...