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34,000 traffic deaths a year in the U.S.; more than 1 million worldwide. Can the driverless car reduce that number?

It moves like a tank over rough terrain, but has four limbs with which to stand and use human tools. It is CHIMP, Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) simian-inspired entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which seeks to demonstrate a robot that can assist in dangerous disaster zones, by driving vehicles and wielding tools designed for humans.

Kinect changed the game for robotics, will the Kinect 2 change it again?

"Piaggio Aero Industries, together with Selex ES, today presented the Piaggio Aero P.1HH 'HammerHead' - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) at IDEX 2013."

Read more:  http://www.arabianaerospace.aero/idex-piaggio-aero-industries-and-selex-es-present-the-p-1hh-hammerhead-uas.html

"Piaggio Aero Industries, together with Selex ES, today presented the Piaggio Aero P.1HH 'HammerHead' - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) at IDEX 2013."

Read more:  http://www.arabianaerospace.aero/idex-piaggio-aero-industries-and-selex-es-present-the-p-1hh-hammerhead-uas.html

NASA reveals an excavation robot that may one day be sent to the Moon or Mars.

After unveiling its Kinect-like gesture control system for PCs in mid-2012, Leap Motion is a promising product that's not available to buy just yet, but that's set to change this year. At the...

We heard back in September that the LS3 quadruped robot had gotten some nifty upgrades and was undergoing field trials with the military, and we've just gotten an update about how that's all been going. Short answer: quite well, but for a longer answer, we talked to DARPA.

Among the highlights of the recent Zhuhai Airshow, taking place from Nov. 13 to 18, there was China’s clone of the U.S. MQ-1 Predator drone called the Wing Loong (Pterodactyl). 

Chris Anderson (CEO of 3D Robotics) announced a $5+ million funding round with two premier firms, which will accelerate the growth of 3DR and expand into new markets.

Never mind looming defense cuts or residual technical challenges.

This video demonstrates a dodgeball playing robot that can dodge, grasp, and throw a dynamically moving ball. Research done at the GRASP Lab of the Universit...

UMARS – Unmanned Modular Airborne Research System, is a “research platform for near-ground atmospheric research,” according to its developers, IMES (Institut für Mechanische Systeme) and the ZAV ( Centre for Aviation and Transport Systems) in...

Coming from the Chinese Internet, the following image shows the the, Lijian ("sharp sword"), China's first weaponized stealth drone. via Secretprojects.co.uk/Danger Room According to Duowei News, t...

Kinect changed the game for robotics, will the Kinect 2 change it again?

"Piaggio Aero Industries, together with Selex ES, today presented the Piaggio Aero P.1HH 'HammerHead' - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) at IDEX 2013."

Sources tell IEEE Spectrum that one of the most well-known robotics research companies in the world, Willow Garage, will be closing within months

Hundreds of robot & technology outlets (including this one) were scooped by a world-traveling random French guy who dropped by NASA Johnson earlier this month.

South Korea’s IMD Communications has lately unveiled a new robotic mannequin, presented in three variants, each named after an Indian goddess and having its own modeling behavior.

Over at Mad Lab Industries, they had the idea of building a quadcopter that could walk and fly. By combining a hexapod with a hexacopter, they ended up with this creation.

by DAVID AXE
After 11 years of remote warfare including no fewer than 1,000 drone strikes, a 32-year-old London artist has begun chronicling the targets of U.S. robotic attacks on the photo-sharing...

Researchers have built a new and more nimble camera-carrying robot to climb stairs inside the Fukushima No. 1 plant and deliver images from areas where radiation levels remain dangerously high.