Willow Garage's low-cost kit can track people and take panoramic pics of your home. It also possesses the ultimate robot skill: serving drinks on a tray. Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of ...

Want to try out ROS (Robot Operating System) on an official Willow Garage product, but don't have the $400,000 required to pick up our old pal, PR2? You're precisely the audience the company is ...

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 ...

Amid a deep discussion of advanced telemetric robotics last night, NYTimes’ Nick Bilton broke the pace with, “Have you seen the TurtleBot?” But no, oh, marvelous me! I had not seen the TurtleBot!

(Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever ordered a product from Amazon, chances are that a robot selected your purchase from a shelf, read the barcode and delivered it to the counter for packaging. Hopefully, ...

Sure, we've seen machines that can mix drinks with the help of an app and robot bartenders that can create cocktails out of Keurig-esque pods, but they all require you to actually push the control ...

Concept: Canada’s robotics company Clearpath Robotics has partnered with California-based company Open Robotics to develop a next-gen open-source robotics platform named TurtleBot 4 aimed at educators ...