Installations of new robots set a record and peaked in 2005, with 126,700 new units, 30 percent more than were installed in 2004, and nearly 13 percent more than the 110,600 industrial robots that are ...

Watching the original “Star Wars” movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2. After enduring plenty of lean years chasing ...

“Robots” came to life over the weekend as the launch of Fox’s CGI toon easily took the top spot with an estimated $36.5 million at 3,776 playdates. But moviegoers showed only moderate interest in ...

Fox is waiting more than six months — forever in DVD land nowadays — to release its $126 million-grossing toon “Robots,” but the Sept. 20 debut will mark the studio’s first simultaneous bow for the ...

The newest CG-animated movie on the market right now has the same old theme with a different background. The protagonist is a son who goes out into the world to try and prove his self worth to his ...

Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge ...

The 2005 World Expo (formerly the World’s Fair, famous for once introducing the world to ice cream cones and also communism) in Japan will be greeting its guests with robots when it opens later this ...

Imagine if your car’s park distance control, radar cruise control, night vision and that little backup camera (that shows the trash cans you’re about to run over) all conspired with your navigation ...