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Angry bees that fly like mini-missiles could map the futures of unmanned aircraft and planetary explorer robots, thanks to new University of Queensland research backed by the Queensland Government.

Researchers have announced the beginning of a test project in Hertfordshire involving the use of robots to help disabled children to interact and develop more social skills.

January 4, 2007 The personal robotics industry may still be in its infancy, but it is being predicted that it will rival the automotive industry in size two decades from now – by that time, robots will be far more advanced than those we know today and an inkling of just what might be in store comes from the University of Washington where researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to contr

Carnegie Mellon University is becoming to robots, what Cooperstown is to baseball.

About 1.8 million Americans live without one or more of their limbs, according to the National Limb Loss Information Center. Until recently, amputees could expect no more than a plastic mold of their arm or leg that requires manual control.

Robots already are driving cars, vacuuming rooms, tracking wildlife, climbing up walls and spying on nannies. In the not-so-distant future, a new generation of machines might be driving for us, watching our children and dispensing medicine, according to a panel of experts at the recent annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

William Wong June 29, 2006

Robotics is a lot harder than it looks. But that's what makes it so challenging. Rolling, flying, and walking robots are hard enough to build. Now try creating a robot in human form. Yet the state of the art continues to improve by leaps and bounds, including a few robots that are starting to do just that.