[Kevin] undertook a robot build partly for his own enjoyment, but also to include his kids in the action. He acquired a cheap toy and packed it full of programmable goodness. The starting point ...

The first digital and programmable robot was called Unimate and was sold for a $35,000 loss to General Motors the same year its patent was approved. The Unimate was filed for patenting by George ...

A peek at Misty, an advanced, programmable home robot that makes faces There's plenty of consumer robots out there, and a growing number of programmable robotic platforms for the home, office ...

Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, has used small programmable robots to analyze and understand homing behavior in animals. The researchers succeeded in figuring out how some animals maneuver ...

Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have made a significant advance in the field of molecular robotics by developing custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA ...

(Sphero, $179) In just 15 minutes from unboxing the easy-to-build MBot, kids can have a programmable robot at their fingertips. Download Makeblock’s app, load the robot and its remote with ...

Velcro DNA To assemble the voxels, the team incorporate additional DNA strands on to the exterior of the nanostructures, with the new strands acting as programmable binding sites. Dr. Luu said ...