Installations of new robots set a record and peaked in 2005, with 126,700 new units, 30 percent more than were installed in 2004, and nearly 13 percent more than the 110,600 industrial robots that are ...

Watching the original “Star Wars” movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2. After enduring plenty of lean years chasing ...

“Robots” came to life over the weekend as the launch of Fox’s CGI toon easily took the top spot with an estimated $36.5 million at 3,776 playdates. But moviegoers showed only moderate interest in ...

Fox is waiting more than six months — forever in DVD land nowadays — to release its $126 million-grossing toon “Robots,” but the Sept. 20 debut will mark the studio’s first simultaneous bow for the ...

PARENTS watching "Robots" are going to love the notion that babies can be outfitted with volume control buttons. This adult joke will surely be lost on the kids in the audience. But they'll be too ...

While consumers have long benefited from military technology trickling into the civilian sector, government research into mobile robots promises to bring a host of products previously only envisioned ...

Purdue University will sponsor a nine-day tribute to robotics during two separate events open to the public March 10-19. The first event features ASIMO, which Honda Motor Co. created and bills as the ...

The 2005 World Expo (formerly the World’s Fair, famous for once introducing the world to ice cream cones and also communism) in Japan will be greeting its guests with robots when it opens later this ...

At this week's Scientific Sessions 2005, a conference of the American Heart Association, Dr. Marc R. Katz, M.D., presented a study showing that robots can make pretty good surgeons. Combining ...

Imagine if your car’s park distance control, radar cruise control, night vision and that little backup camera (that shows the trash cans you’re about to run over) all conspired with your navigation ...