Lego's Mindstorms have been a popular platform for teaching robotics. The new Mindstorm NXT takes this to the next level with a sophisticated NXT control module featuring a pair of built-in processors ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

To develop robots capable of performing tasks, the students learned how to use infrared, light, rotation, sonar and touch sensors.<P> Professional engineers and technical students from the College of ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

San Diego International Airport is testing autonomous security robots as part of its 16-week Innovation Lab program. NXT Robotics will beta test and refine the robots in an operating airport setting.