Robotics Stories for 2014

An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture 39
What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? 628
The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots 391
After 40 Years As a Double Amputee, Man Gains Two Bionic Arms 66
Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates 688
Telepresence Store Staffed Remotely Using Robots 52
Robots Modeled On Ancient Fish Help Researchers Study Origins of Extinct Species 29
Ocean-Going Robot Fleet Completes Fish Tracking Mission 10
Kiva Systems Co-Founder: Drone Delivery Could Be As Low As 20 Cents Per Package 92
How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War 117
Microsoft Rolls Out Robot Security Guards 140
Halting Problem Proves That Lethal Robots Cannot Correctly Decide To Kill Humans 335
Robots Put To Work On E-Waste 39
A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body 200
Low Cost Ground Robot Chassis That Can Traverse Challenging Obstacles 38
Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach 203
Robot Makes People Feel Like a Ghost Is Nearby 140
Pacific Northwest Lab's Sensor-Packed Fish Gauges Hydropower Facilities 28
China Plans To Build a Domestic Robotics Industry 67
Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google 82
Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes 720
Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You 82
Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots 87
High-Tech Walkers Could Help Japan's Elderly Stay Independent 34
Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015 106
One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner 405
Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed 71
New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects 38
The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission 70
Developing the First Law of Robotics 165
MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered 90
Robot Operating System To Officially Support ARM Processors 33
Ask Slashdot: Robotics or Electronic Kits For Wounded Veterans? 115
Ireland To Host Robotic Sailing Championships 14
Robot Dramas: Autonomous Machines In the Limelight On Stage and In Society 31
Robot Printer Brings Documents To Your Desk 64
Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind 108
FarmBot: an Open Source Automated Farming Machine 133
Humans Need Not Apply: a Video About the Robot Revolution and Jobs 304
A Thousand Kilobots Self-Assemble Into Complex Shapes 56
Driverless Buses Ruled Out For London, For Now 84
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload 109
Household Robot Jibo Nets Over $1 Million On Indiegogo 61
Autonomous Sea-Robot Survives Massive Typhoon 47
Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In Under 2 Minutes 69
Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size 52
Wearable Robot Adds Two Fingers To Your Hand 77
Phase-Changing Material Created For Robots 35
Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots 530
Are Tethers the Answer To the Safety Issues of Follow-Me Drone Technology? 88
By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem 564
In Düsseldorf, A Robot Valet Will Park Your Car 120
Researchers Create Walking, Muscle-Powered Biobots 33
Intel Offering 3-D Printed Robot Kits 26
How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President 97
John Hawley and His Dr. Who-Inspired Robot K-9 (Video) 23
Robotics Engineers: "We Don't Want To Replace Humans. We Want To Enhance Humans. 124
Open Source Robot OS Finds Niches From Farms To Space 36
The Sci-Fi Myth of Killer Machines 222
MIT Working On Robotic Limbs That Attach To Shoulders, Waist 12
EU Launches World's Largest Civilian Robotics Program; 240,000 New Jobs Expected 171
MIT Researcher Works Toward Robots That Assemble Themselves In an Oven 20
Robots Will Pave the Way To Mars 95
The Sci-Fi Myth of Robotic Competence 255
Understanding an AI's Timescale 189
US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics 165
DogeCoin To the Moon Via a Google Lunar X PRIZE Team 35
UN to Debate Use of Fully Autonomous Weapons, New Report Released 180
Foam-Spraying Quadcopter Becomes a Flying 3D Printer 34
The Struggle To Ban Killer Robots 138
Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery 150
Minesweepers Robotic Competition Aims For a Landmine-Free World 103
The Squishy Future of Robotics 36
Humans Are Taking Jobs From Robots In Japan 80
Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate 870
iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Too Expensive To Be the Norm 122
Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029 294
First Outdoor Flocks of Autonomous Flying Robots 84
Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics 176
Robot To Serve Security Detail At FIFA World Cup In Brazil 32
Termite-Inspired Robots Build With Bricks 17
Dyson Invests £5 Million To Create 'Intelligent Domestic Robots' 125
Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else) 135
UCLA Architectural Program Teaches Design for Robot Homes 35
The Changing Face of Robotics 49
Robot Tourism Coming Soon To Korea: Robot Land Project Breaks Ground 31
Robots Test Their Own World Wide Web 64
Inside Tony Hsieh's Quiet Plan To Bankroll Hardware Startups 40
Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? 514
The Year In Robotics 44
How To Change U.S. Laws To Promote Robotics 118