Raspberry Pi-powered open-source bartending robot nearly funded on Kickstarter

Who wouldn't want a Raspbery Pi-powered open source bartending that you control with your phone or tablet?

This monkey controls a robot on the other side of the world — just by thinking

"This is the complete liberation of the brain from the physical constraints of the body," brain-machine interface scientist Miguel Nicolelis says.

UC San Diego gives birth to monster baby robot — for science

The Machine Perception Lab unveils its latest project, an android infant that replicates real human facial expressions.

Real Jedi mind tricks: Scientists double efficiency of brain-controlled systems for powered prosthetics

Imagine an Oscar Pistorius, in the next summer Olympics, with smart legs and feet that move naturally, controlled by his brain in exactly the same way as his hands and eyes always have been.

The new Romo: stronger, faster, smarter personal robot (and cuter, too)

Romo 1 earned Kickstarter pledges of $114,796. But the newest Romo is just getting started.

You will be assimilated: iRobot acquires up-and-coming competitor Mint

Home-cleaning robot manufacturer iRobot announced today that it has acquired one of its key competitors, Evolution Robotics, for $74 million. Evolution Robotics is the maker of the Mint floor cleaning robots.

2 billion pounds of dirt and 1.7 trillion square feet later, Roomba celebrates its 10th anniversary (infographic)

My blissful dreams of robot-aided leisure colossal couch-potato-dom were brutally crushed, alas, under the harsh realities of early adopterhood.

DoubleRobotics: telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)

oubleRobotics has just released a telepresence solution that isn't ugly, awkward, or the apparent product of a Junkyard Wars amateur hour competition.

13-foot 12,000-pound mechanized robot suit now for sale in Japan

Japan is the land of robots, right? But not just inoffensive little welding bots that make Toyota minivans and Honda Civics. Instead, Suidobashi Heavy Industry is showing off Kuratas: a 13-foot wearable robot that makes Call of Duty armored suits …

Check out this phone-controlled robot from a Twilio/Node.js hacker

An aspiring hardware hacker at Twilio has used his company’s own telephony APIs as well as Node.js and Arduino to build the charming robot you see in the clip above.

We just about overloaded on developer buzzwords there, so let’s …

Wii-controlled robot pets cat in YouTube video; Internet’s head explodes

And now for something completely different: Here’s a video of a robot brushing a cat.

The bot, a Nao model hacked by clever software developer Taylor Veltrop, is controlled with a Nintendo Wiimote, a Microsoft Kinect, a head-mounted display and …

Here’s how those smartphone-powered robots work & when you can buy them (video)

A couple of days ago, we told you about the free-wheelin’, music-playing robots that OLogic showed off at the Demo fall conference. Today, we can show you more about how those robots work, how much they’ll cost, when you can …