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Robots for the elderly

The da Vinci, a surgical robot costing up to $2.6 million, gives surgeons powerful new abilities in the operating room. But while some doctors tout shorter recovery times for patients and decreased risk of complications, others warn of high costs and the lack of a national training standard.

Read the comment  by Han Jun Zeng. Could lead to a good discussion of what robots can and can't do.

A four-legged robot called BigDog now sports an arm powerful enough to lift and throw breeze blocks.

Combines database, web and robotics.

autonomous robots on the battlefield

The similarities between robots used for cleaning and those used by soldiers in Afghanistan

"Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul""

Could our next Moon exploration mission involve a small step for an ape, but a giant leap for all robots?

Researchers say many factory jobs could be lost to robots, and it is not the only industry facing disruption from the tech.

Scientists have developed a method through which people can control a robotic arm with their mind.

We are on the cusp of a revolution in the way we work so move over and make room for the robots.

Are real robots ever going to be as clever and as evil as they are portrayed in films?

Are real robots ever going to be as clever and as evil as they are portrayed in films?

"WE LIVE IN AN AGE of increasingly smart machines. In recent years, engineers have pushed into areas, from voice recognition to robotics to search engines, that once seemed to be the preserve of humans. But I.B.M. has a particular knack for pitting man against machine. In 1997, the company's supercomputer Deep Blue famously beat the grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess, a feat that generated enormous publicity for I.B.M. It did not, however, produce a marketable product; the technical accomplishment - playing chess really well - didn't translate to real-world business problems and so produced little direct profit for I.B.M. In the mid '00s, the company's top executives were looking for another high-profile project that would provide a similar flood of global publicity. But this time, they wanted a "grand challenge" (as they call it internally), that would meet a real-world need. "