ROBONAUT TO THE MOON!

Nov 2, 2010
The plan to send a man back to the moon has been scrapped since at 150 billion dollars, that's just too expensive. But there's a rogue program...

Guy gets robot to punch people a whole lot in the name of science

Oct 14, 2010
This. This I love. In Slovenia(!), a scientist has somehow persuaded six male colleagues to let a robot punch them repeatedly in order to build up...

People who can't walk will be able to walk with E-Legs

Oct 8, 2010
Gadget stories can sometimes be tedious but not when the gadget allows people to walk. Berkeley Bionics unveiled E-legs at an event yesterday. It's...

Robots programmed to deceive

Sep 10, 2010
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology* have created a robot capable of deception. They set up two bots in a game of hide and seek. Robot...

Oil-eating swarm of robots

Aug 27, 2010
It's an MIT project called Seaswarm. Little robots drag around nano-fabric that can asborb 20 times their weight in oil.  These robots dragging...

Search for artificial intelligence in space, not radio waves

Aug 23, 2010
Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomer Seth Shostak says instead of listening for radio waves and looking for biological signs...

For public good, not for profit.

New robot eats and poops

Jul 22, 2010
A new British robot called Ecobot III can survive for seven days at a time by consuming biomass and excreting waste. The article points out that it...

Yotaro the robot baby

Jun 24, 2010
As discussed on the show, here's a video of Yotaro, the robot baby. As you can see, he (it?) isn't especially realistic but somehow elicits...