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'Robots: Interactive Exhibition', opens Saturday, January 28 at the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford.

From protecting people from food-borne illnesses to playing basketball, robots constructed by Alachua County students can harness the power of young minds and spark interest in STEM education.

The big loser in the Pentagon's new budget? Ordinary human beings.

Project targets oil, substances in Gulf of Mexico University students and faculty are developing robots that not only travel under the sea but can also operate in irregular conditions in the wake of a disaster like an oil spill. University mathematics professor Michael ;

Alyssa Rosenberg captions: Often, when we see robots in popular culture, they’re actually more powerful than we are. If the Cylons were a metaphor for, say, Irish immigrants to the United States, they’d be telling a story about workers rising up from the slums and engulfing us all in whiskey and potatoes. These metaphors tend to legitimate the fears of privileged class rather than debunking them ...

A NASA contest challenged high school students to write the best code for floating robots on the space station to simulate asteroid mining.

Drop the gimmicks, focus on practical problem-solving, and robotics can change the world, says Helen Greiner

The past five to ten years have seen the birth of microbotics. A whole range of components that are vital for building robots, such as actuators, motors or batteries, became available in micro-scale only fairly recently. Finally enthusiasts got what they needed to put their own systems together, and the whole field benefited from their work. But there are obvious limitations to scaling down ...

Over at the University of Pennsylvania, robotics researchers have taught the Willow Garage PR2 to pick up dog leavings, so you don't have to.

Little surprise: Kids want personalized, human-like robots that help them learn and play with them, says a Lego-affiliated study that finds potential in robots to enhance tech-centric learning styles.