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Willow Garage is organizing a workshop at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010 in San Francisco to discuss the intersection of computer vision with human-robot interaction.

Did you know that iPhone apps run on the iPhone OS? Most of us know a computer’s operating system (OS) by its invisibility. Just let me run my Pandora or Goggle Earth or Stanza app and I’m happy.

The news at the University of Arizona's Engineering Online web site is that Matt Bunting's now famous spider-like “hexapod” robot is hitting the road over the next several months.

Ever heard of the Boston BigDog? No, it’s not a new gourmet sandwich—it’s “the most advanced quadruped robot on earth,” the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots, designed to walk, run and climb on rough terrain, and carry heavy loads.

The Sexbots are coming, and we will cum with them. Three times a week or whatever our physician / longevity coach recommends.

The Star Wars 2-1B series medical droid is the fictional soft-spoken medical droid that provides Luke Skywalker with a prosthetic hand in the Star Wars saga.

What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot? This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years.

Great grandma can soon put aside that powered wheelchair she uses to terrorize the residents at her rest home.

At the IJCAI Workshop on Robotics last month, Brian Gerkey from the open-source robotics startup Willow Garage gave a talk with the inspirational title “Toward a Robot App Store.”

Military robots were once again in the news this month with headlines like "Corpse-eating robot" (Wired), "Robot... to eat all life on Earth" (The Register), and "Sniper Bot Refuels by consuming human bodies" (OhGizmo!). Such death-dealing robotic zombies would certainly seem to make the Governator-style T-800 Terminators seem like tame puppies.