The creature you see standing before you is a 22-foot tall Styrobot constructed entirely from spare polystyrene packing materials, and no, each piece didn’t just show up that way. Michael Salter managed to whittle away on this beast until its completion

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Much like the fictional cleaning robot currently packing movie theaters, robots are being used to clean humanitys worst messes. At Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, where plutonium for Cold War nukes was made, robots are on the front line of the cleanup effort. Exposure to the material would kill a human within moments.

Tandem Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (T-SAFT), aka “Tank Crawler”

Researchers have developed a robot that can create 3D replicas of objects and even replicate itself.Scientists from the University of Bath in England unveiled an open-source machine that acts like a three-dimensional printer. Instead of printing out documents or pictures on paper, this printer uses blueprints to produce 3-D plastic objects.

Smith explained that unlike a regular printer that uses ink, RepRap heats up plastic and then squeezes it out into a line. The lines are built up into usable forms as they solidify. So far, the robot has made everyday plastic objects, like door…

When theyre not out destroying humanity, robots, cyborgs and other mechanized creatures are pretty damn cool. Here’s a list of the robots that are kicking around today… just waiting for their chance to strike.

The T-1000 (“Terminator 2”) Speaking of Cyberdyne, everyone knows that the best robot ever created will always be the murderous T-1000. Made of “liquid metal,” the T-1000 could change…

The robot is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys (DARPA) Chemical Robots (ChemBots) program that seeks to build soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions

DARPA goes on to say nature provides many examples of ChemBot features including mice, octopi, and insects, that readily traverse openings barely larger than their largest hard? component, via a variety of reversible mechanisms. These…

South Korean researchers unveiled this week a penguin robot called Pomi (for Penguin Robot for Multimodal Interaction) that can “EMIT SMELLS” based on how it “feels” (Why is this good?) The robot, which is designed to imitate human emotions, has a fake heart beat that changes tempo based on its emotional state.

South Korean researchers unveiled this week a penguin robot called Pomi (for Penguin Robot for Multimodal Interaction) that can “EMIT SMELLS” based on how it “feels” (Why is this good?) The robot, which is…

The Firefox 3 beta robot is back for an encore, this time in celebration of the software’s impending release.

* If you’re a fan of this art, we’ll soon be adding it to the Mozilla Store as a limited edition 18×24″ poster. More details on that to come… * For a behind-the-scenes look at the early…

The arm is fully articulated, giving the user the same degrees of movement as a natural arm, and is sensitive enough to pick up a piece of paper, a wineglass or even a grape without mishap.

I was in an accident a few years ago and severed the nerves and tendons in two of my fingers. When I was consulting with my orthopedic surgeon he described the process of reconnecting the nerves in my fingers. I said, “But the individual…

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was born 100 years ago today. But while his hero’s Cold War concerns may have dated, some of Bond’s gadgets have not. Some movies and stories used existing technologies such as jetpacks (Dr No), autogyros (You Only Live Twice) and GPS-capable phones (Casino Royale)…

Techniques like using artificial blood to carry extracted oxygen inside an artificial gill modelled more closely on that of a fish have promised more portable sizes since. But their designs have struggled to leave the drawing board or lab bench….

Panasonic have sent a 17-centimeter tall, 130-gram robot up a 1738 foot (530m) length of rope suspended next to a 1640 foot (500m) cliff at the Grand Canyon

[…] Good on this tiny EVOLTA-powered robot for climbing a 1,500-ft. Grand Canyon cliff on Saturday. The 4.5-ounce, 6.7-inch robo climber was scaling the cliff as a publicity stunt/demonstration for the Panasonic EVOLTA…

Delicate movements by robots are fairly difficult. After all, most robots are made of milled metals and death-dealing neutronium, so you cant really pick up egg or an electric lamp”

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The Yellow Drum Machine drives around the room looking for things that might make an interesting sound when tapped on. If he likes what he hears, he starts going to town with a little riff. Once hes bored, he moves on, looking for something else to make noise with.

This is just adorable. I like its “eyes” that even move rhythmically. Really clever. I can imagine that if you knew the basics this wouldn’t be a phd-level project either. Imagine if Honda or another top robotics…

The regulars hardly glance outside. They’ve seen bar owner Rufus Terrill’s invention on patrol before ? its bright red lights and even brighter spotlight blazing, infrared video camera filming and water cannon at the ready in the spinning turret on top.

Terrill, a 57-year-old ex-Marine, asserts his motives are pure: He says more police now patrol the area at night, the park across the street feels safer and he's had no break-ins since the cube-shaped robot, which Terrill…

Meet the Urinal Elephant, otherwise known as the Dasubee toilet scrubbing robot.

Japan: Where a toilet-scrubbing robot isn't cool enough by itself, so they have to make it into an ADORABLE toilet-scrubbing robot.The fact that there exists something that let me write the phrase “adorable toilet-scrubbing…