Robotics Stories for 2012

Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler In Nine Months 114
Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? 540
How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? 337
Arduino and MK802 Robot, Controlled By Phone 31
Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Summer Camp Tech Center? 49
Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant 510
Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber 780
Australian Uni's Underground, Robot-Staffed Library 46
A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City 602
Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy 182
World's First Fully Functioning Missile-Shooting Robotic Transformer 33
The Secret To Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop 183
How Do We Program Moral Machines? 604
Real-Life Transformer Robot On Sale In Japan 54
Disney Research Robot Can Juggle, Play Catch 40
Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing Robots 82
'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch 297
Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
Roaming Robot May Explore Mysterious Moon Caverns 29
Teaching Robots New Tricks Without Programming 42
How Robots Saved an Artist's Sanity 26
Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests 56
Mind-Controlled Robot Avatars Inch Towards Reality 34
Foxconn Begins To Assemble Its Robot Army 303
NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works 109
Neuromorphic Algorithms Allow MAVs To Avoid Obstacles With Single Camera 39
Self-Assembling Robots Using Flying Drones 33
Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg 117
Shanghai Hosts Its First Maker Carnival 20
VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats 33
Vanderbilt University Steps Into the Exoskeleton Market 26
More Drones Set To Use US Air Space 223
Virginia Tech's RoMeLa Answers DARPA Robotics Challenge With THOR 62
New HAL Exoskeleton: A Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit To Be Used In Fukushima 111
US Navy Funds 'MacGyver' Robot 70
Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week 617
Water-Prospecting Lunar Rover Prototype Built 36
Will Your Next iPhone Be Built By Robots? 251
African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots 60
Suitable Technology's Telepresence Robot Lets You Roll Remotely 51
Robot Snakes To Fight Cancer Via Natural Orifice Surgery 73
Meet iRobot Founder Rodney Brooks's New Industrial Bot, Baxter 188
Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You 92
What's Next For iRobot? 88
Fujitsu Building Robot To Pass Math Exams 75
DARPA's Robo-Cheetah Is Now Faster Than Usain Bolt 91
Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher 288
Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle 20
Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them 72
Robot Brings Patch-Clamping To the Masses 59
Wave Glider Robot Helps Forecast Hurricane Isaac's Path 35
Robot Learning To Recognize Itself In Mirror 133
Cheap Four-fingered Robot Hand Edges Closer To Human Dexterity 73
Surfing Robot Tracks Great White Sharks 12
Flexible Robot Can Change Colors 42
This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like 443
Giant Mech Robots From Japan 104
XRL Hexapod Robot Gets a Tail, Learns To Use It 52
Resurrect Your Old Code With a DIY Punch Card Reader 100
iRobot's Robot Doc Is Ready To Heal You 53
US Regaining Manufacturing Might With Robots and 3D Printing 475
MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash 238
Laser Powers Lockheed Martin's Stalker Drone For 48 Hours 129
fMRI Lets Israeli Student Control Robot In France With His Mind 92
Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward 115
Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time 225
Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever 235
Robots To Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane 98
Famous 'Uncanny Valley' Essay Translated, Published In Full 70
Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations 78
Boeing Hydrogen Powered Drone First Flight 160
Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test 148
Japan Readies Robot For Work At Crippled Nuclear Reactor 78
Microbots Made of Bubbles Are Controlled By Lasers 51
MIT Unveils Robotic Manipulator Filled With Coffee Grounds 60
Paralyzed Woman Uses Mind-Controlled Robot Arm 43
Student Makes Real-Life Portal Turret 91
Willow Garage Announces New Open Source Robotics Foundation 9
MA Hackerspace Building Rideable Hexapod 55
Graphene Helps a Robot Creep Like an Inchworm 36
NASA and Astrobotic Investigating Ice Hunting Mission to the Moon 46
Official Details For the DARPA Robotics Challenge 61
Humanoid Robots For the Next DARPA Grand Challenge? 53
Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes 125
MIT Wants You To Print Your Own Paper Robots 34
TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found 537
Bringing Auto-Graders To Student Essays 227
RoboBonobo: A Project To Outfit Apes With Tablets and Telepresence Bots 68
Needed: A LAMP Stack For Robotics 65
Blind Man Test Drives Google's Autonomous Car 273
11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air 68
Using Mech Combat To Hone Engineering Skills 59
Amoeboid Robot Moves Autonomously Without Centralized Brain 38
When a Robot Becomes the Life of the Party 36
Hong Kong Dentist Crafts Robotic Tools To Explore Egyptian Pyramids 33
Teaching Robot Learners To Ask Good Questions 93
Robot Firefighter To Throw Extinguisher Grenades 78
Open Source Robotic Surgeon 42
DARPA-Funded 'Cheetah' Breaks Speed Record For Legged Robots 96
DNA Nanorobot Halts Growth of Cancer Cells 74
New Technique For Mass-Producing Microbots Inspired By Origami 28
BigDog Robot Gets Much Bigger 158
Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs 147
Crab Robot Helps Remove Stomach Cancer 83
Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley 501
The Science of Human-Robot Love 88
MRI Powered Pill-Sized Robot Swims Through Intestines 98
US Navy Developing App-Summoned Robotic Helicopter 69
Where Were the Robots In Fukushima Crisis? 130
Remotely Pat Your Pet With Kinect and a Wiimote 53
Instead of a Wheel Chair, How About an Exoskeleton? 232