Robotics Stories for 2010

A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred 88
What Robots Do For Christmas 31
A Bionic Leg That Rewires Stroke Victims' Brains 36
High-Tech War Games Help Save Lives 142
Researchers Develop Self-Healing Plastic 71
General Motors' NASA Robot On Tour 72
Japanese Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries 202
A Mind Made From Memristors 320
South Africa Drones For Anti-Rhino-Poaching Patrol 96
BEAR Robot Designed To Rescue Wounded Soldiers 104
Bionic Elephant's Trunk, Manta Rays and Jelly Fish 27
Autonomous Audi TT Conquers Pike's Peak 187
Chess Terminator Robot Takes On Former World Champ 63
Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World 124
Robot Actress Makes Stage Debut In Japan 140
Replacing Sports Bloggers With an Algorithm 120
Android Phone Solves Rubik's Cube In 12.5 Seconds 76
Toy Robots Can Guard Your Home 151
A Robot In Every Korean Kindergarten By 2013? 136
The Right Robotic Stuff 53
10th Birthday of ASIMO 53
HULC Robotic Exoskeleton MK II Undergoing Tests 72
Robotic Hands Grip Without Fingers 105
Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash 200
Study Shows Babies Think Friendly Robots Are Sentient 159
Robots Guarding US Nuclear Stockpiles In Nevada 128
Robot Controlled By Rat Brain 170
Robot Drawn Caricatures 29
Panasonic's 16-Finger, Hair-Washing Robot 181
U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks 124
Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi 218
Remote Operated Aircraft Targets Hurricanes 56
New HRP-4 Humanoid Robots From Japan To Go On Sale 157
Honda's Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asimo 135
Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin' 52
September Is Cyborg Month 118
Boeing Hummingbird Drone Crashes In Belize 68
Robots Taught to Deceive 239
Robot Snake Can Climb Trees 90
The State of Household Robots 102
Gecko Inspired Robot Climbs Walls at Stanford 56
MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype 123
Robot Swarm Control On Microsoft's Surface 106
F1 Simulators Revealed 72
Robonaut To Escort On Space Shuttle Mission 74
The Vending Machines of the Future 216
Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Memory, Strategy 206
Swinging Robot Excels At Wall-Climbing 54
Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point 205
The REX Robotic Exoskeleton 53
NASA Adds $5M Prizes For Robots, Solar Spacecraft 17
South Korea Deploys Killer Robot In DMZ 243
Teaching With Robots 69
Willow Garage Robot Fetches Beer, Engineers Rejoice 114
'Robofish' Schools the Rest 57
NASA Tests Hardware, Software On Armadillo Rocket 108
BP Robot Seriously Hampers Oil Spill Containment 264
Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online 115
Quantifying, and Dealing With, the Deepwater Spill 343
iRobot Demonstrates New Weaponized Robot 188
Japan Plans Moon Base Built By Robots For Robots 253
Toyota Robot Violinist Wows At Shanghai Expo 121
Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics 225
Robot Presides Over Japanese Wedding 1
"Cyber-Roach" Forces Rethink On Animal Movement 41
Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking 265
NASA Outlines Plan For Next-Gen Space Robots 89
Robot With Knives Used In Robotics Injury Study 132
UK Docs Perform First Remote-Control Heart Surgery 142
Japanese Consortium Projects a Humanoid Robot On the Moon By 2015 151
Lego Robot Solves Bigger and Harder Rubik's Cubes 63
Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot 82
Controlling a Robot With the Emotiv EEG Headset 33
World's Fastest Robot Versus the Wiimote 92
Lego Robot Plays Tetris 94
NASA To Send a Humanoid Robot On Shuttle's Final Mission 119
Aussie Army Trains With Fleet of Robots On Segways 109
VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek 133
Underwater Robot Powered By Ocean's Thermal Energy 40
5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter 277
Android Copy of Young Woman Unveiled In Japan 264
Berkeley Gets Willow Garage Robot To Fold Towels 99
How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars? 218
Newcastle Maker Faire 2010 27
Home-Built Turing Machine 123
iPhone App Developed To Control NASA Robot 26
ISS To Get Man Cave 123
ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones 776
The State of Robotic Surgery 72
Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea 132
AMARSi Project Aims To Have Robots Learn Jobs From Co-workers 87
Japanese Baby Robot Teaches Parenting Skills 8
Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? 105
Turn Your Roomba Into a Household Google Bot 79
Defending Against Drones 368
Project M Could Send Every Scientist To the Moon, By Proxy 150
DARPA Puts $32M Toward Quadruped Robot Prototype 64
Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds 224
Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines 286
Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots 92
Low-Cost Robotic Arm Sketches Faces 93
Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force 311
Six-legged Robot Teaches Itself To Walk 113
When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? 979
Military's Robotic Pack Mule Gets $32M Boost 167
Evolving Robots Learn To Prey On Each Other 115
UK Police Plan To Use Military-Style Spy Drones 390
Willow Garage To Give Away 10 Open Source Robots 44
Robotics Prof Fears Rise of Military Robots 258
Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" 602