Two diverse, beloved animation series — at Adult Swim and Nickelodeon — are celebrating 20th anniversaries with new productions. The new production marks the culmination of two decades of Robot ...

Team NimbRo from the University of Bonn has won the grand prize of five million US dollars at the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition in Long Beach (USA). The final of the competition, sponsored by the ...

A global robotics competition focused on developing technology that allows folks to travel the world via an avatar is scheduled to have its final event in Long Beach this weekend. The ANA Avatar ...

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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Marcus Wandt has recently achieved a historic feat by remotely controlling a four-legged robot dog named Bert from the International Space Station (ISS). This ...

There have been a number of interesting developments happening in the world of robotics lately, including Team NimbRo from the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group at the University of Bonn, Germany, ...

An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

YOKOHAMA: A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster “Avatar” one step closer to reality. Users of the TELESAR V don special ...

The world’s largest robotics conference, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, came to London last week, where a dizzying array of cutting-edge robots were on display, ...

DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called "Avatar." If you've seen the movie of the ...