Robotics Stories for 2011

Experimenting With Robotic Movement 23
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs 56
Tower To Be Built By Flying Robots 58
Harvard Licenses Technology For Tiny Swarming Robot 38
Tiny Insect Cyborgs Could Act As First Responders 25
Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons 113
Min7 Micromouse Robot Solves Maze In 3.921 Seconds 58
A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab 44
4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt 41
Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius 282
A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck 60
Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack 94
Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake 38
Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects 77
Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots 243
Rise of the Ping Pong Robots 50
New, More Autonomous Asimo Robot Unveiled By Honda 62
Bell Labs Builds Cheap Telepresence 'Robots' 65
Hobby Inspired Electric Multicopter Makes Manned Flight 104
Boston Dynamics' PETMAN Humanoid On Video 70
Agile Quadruped Robot Unveiled By Italian Roboticists 45
Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power 195
The Real Job Threat 990
Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor 19
Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h 114
Lego NXT Bot Beats Rubik's Cube Record 50
How Google's Autonomous Vehicles Work 295
Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight 59
Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl 240
Ask Slashdot: Project Scope For MLB Robot Umpires? 141
Boeing Suggests Possible Manned Version of the X-37B Space Plane 87
Man With Quadriplegia Controls Robot Arm With Mind 70
US Military To Field Test "Throwable" Robots 91
Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control 33
Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot 140
Panasonic To Unveil New Helper Robots 41
Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs 496
Smarter Robot Arms 52
Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars 154
Robot To Slowly Run Ironman Triathlon Course 71
The Rise of Robotic Labor 308
Carnegie Mellon Introduces RoboBowl To Spur Robotics Advances 32
Heathkit DIY Kits Are Coming Back 197
Paralyzed Patients Control Robot With Brain Waves 49
Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? 232
Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves 41
James Gosling Leaves Google 192
Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets 91
Fukushima Robot Operator Tells His Story 57
Canadian Firm Gave Libyan Rebels Surveillance Drone 165
MK-1 Robotic Arm Capable of Near-Human Dexterity, Dancing 56
MABEL Robot Runs Like a Human 130
China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car 258
Iron Man-like Exoskeleton Nears Production 220
Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go 81
Eben Upton Talks About the Raspberry Pi USB Computer 82
Google's Self Driving Car Crashes 244
Computer Marries Texas Couple 142
Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots 372
Hackers' Flying Drone Now Eavesdrops On GSM Phones 90
The Uncanny Valley Explained 172
Team Sonia Takes Prize at RoboSub 2011 22
Stanford Students Build "JediBot" 157
Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch 27
NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center 60
Last NASA Spacewalk Marks End of Era 80
Robot Film Festival Hits New York 20
In Robot Soccer, US Team RoMeLa Dominates Robocup 2011 60
Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere 104
Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS 82
Realistic Robot Designed For Dental Students 59
Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect 28
Electronic Skin Gives Robots a Sense of Touch 22
Volkswagon Shows Off Self-Driving Auto-Pilot For Cars 140
Robots Draw Faces and Doodle For London Gallery Goers 13
Kilobots — Cheap Swarm Robots Out of Harvard 121
MIT Student Builds Baking Bot 6
Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers 236
FitBot Lets You Try Clothes Before You Buy 58
Students Win NASA Moon Robot Competition 28
Mars Rover Opportunity Surpasses 30km Driving 86
Robots Retrieve Your Books At U. Chicago's $81 Million Library 202
Implant Restores Paralyzed Man's Leg Movement 65
Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand 124
Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language 159
Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Nao Robot Control Software 26
This Robot Needs a Hug 38
Robots 'Evolve' Altruism 360
Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet 136
German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls 60
Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part 205
Japanese Robots Await Call To Action 50
Working Model Factory Made With Lego Robots 63
Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game 92
Walking HECTOR Robot Inspired By Stick Insect 46
Roboweek Day One - Robotic Teamwork 0
92,000 LEGO Robots To Take Over Peruvian Schools Alongside OLPC 56
Smithsonian Gets Tiny Robots 23
Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" 288
Robots Find Wreckage of AF447 148
Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety 510
Robots Dive Deep To Solve Airliner Crash Mystery 156
US To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan 183
MIT Drone Finds Its Way Using Kinect Vision 77
Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent 91
Flying Robot Bird Unveiled 152
Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide 148
Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion 86
New Hardware Needed For Future Computational Brain 143
How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot? 137
A Bittersweet Finale For Discovery Space Shuttle 205
Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson 241
Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled 147
Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human 177
Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid 81
First Two-Legged Robot Marathon is Under Way In Osaka, Japan 28
NASA Readies Discovery Shuttle For Final Flight 153
Hummingbird-Size Wing-Flapping Drone Unveiled 108
X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On 189
Kinect Revolutionizing Robotics 83
Japanese Build Robot Toddlers 81
The CIA's Amazing RC Animals From the 70s 113
Robot Jet Fighter Takes First Flight 119
RoboEarth Teaches Robots to Learn From Peers 97
Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers 200
Texas Student Attends School As a Robot 218
Office Robots of the Near Future, Gearing Up 100
Robots May Inspire Suits Against Programmers 202
Interactive, Emotion-Detecting Robot Developed 58