A Kinect-powered robot could soon be helping locate earthquake victims, thanks to the engineering ingenuity of a group of U.K. students. The rescue-robot, developed at the University of Warwick by the ...

Philipp Robbel, a PhD student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group, has combined the Kinect motion controller with an iRobot Create platform to create a battery powered robot that can see its environment ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on the hunt for a more natural way to maneuver robots in space for some time now, resulting in cool experiments like using a Leap Motion controller to ...

Here at GeekTech, there have been a lot of great hacks for Microsoft’s Kinect, but this robot one has to be the best. This humanoid robot has been programmed to copy your every move via the Kinect. It ...

Jesus. We were joking when we said, "Go make some robots." Why do you have to be so literal? Short version: some MIT people took Kinect, strapped it to an iRobot Create along with a range-finding ...

When you’re at a robot event like Stanford University’s Robot Block Party this week, the unusual and automated shouldn’t come as a surprise. But I couldn’t help stare when I spotted a little robot ...

It is estimated that over 3.5 trillion photos have been taken since the invention of the modern camera almost 200 years ago -- and with the exception of satellites and unmanned drones, almost all of ...

Bomb squads, vacuum cleaners and doctors -- what do they all have in common? The answer is iRobot, an incredibly versatile company that has created bomb-sweeping robots, Roomba automated vacuum ...

Robots that can whack a golf ball down a fairway aren't exactly new, but building one that can play the nuanced short game is a more complex problem. Researchers at Paderborn University in Germany ...

Jakub Jancek didn't like computers when he was in high school. Now he can hardly imagine doing anything else. "I saw people working on computers and I was like, 'This is not me,'" said the Benedictine ...

A Kinect-powered robot could soon be helping locate earthquake victims, thanks to the engineering ingenuity of a group of U.K. students. The rescue-robot, developed at the University of Warwick by the ...