A Kinect-powered robot could soon be helping locate earthquake victims, thanks to the engineering ingenuity of a group of U.K. students. The rescue-robot, developed at the University of Warwick by the ...

It is estimated that over 3.5 trillion photos have been taken since the invention of the modern camera almost 200 years ago -- and with the exception of satellites and unmanned drones, almost all of ...

Today, San Francisco-based Meka Robotics took the wraps off its latest masterpiece, the M1 Mobile Manipulator. A combination of a bunch of Meka's other technologies, the M1 comes together to perform ...

[Eric] sent in his tutorial on building a Kinect based robot for $500, a low-cost solution to a wife that thinks her husband spends too much on robots. For the base of his build, [Eric] used an iRobot ...

Robots that can whack a golf ball down a fairway aren't exactly new, but building one that can play the nuanced short game is a more complex problem. Researchers at Paderborn University in Germany ...

Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking ...