Separating science fact from science fiction in robotics (with video)
Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world.
Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world.
Windows 10's launch is less than six weeks away, but questions -- lots of questions -- still remain about the new operating system, from when it will be taken to the bosom of enterprise to whether some of Microsoft's moves leading up to it were premeditated.
A professor not only found redemption at the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge earlier this month, he might have found his robot a job at a Las Vegas hotel.
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The first question most people ask an Apple Watch owner is: "What does it do?"
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WORCESTER, Mass. -- In about a month, the robotics team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will have to put their robot up against 24 other teams from around the world in the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals.