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 ...

(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, ...

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 ...

For those that have been drooling over Willow Garage's PR2, the Silicon Valley robotics company has a way to curb your hunger. Starting early this summer, Willow Garage will be shipping orders of ...

If you told the cartographers of yesteryear that they would one day be replaced by a suited up Roomba, they would have probably tossed you overboard. But fast forward a thousand years and three ...

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 ...

In 1961, a robotic arm nicknamed Unimate joined the General Motors assembly line to perform basic welding tasks that were unpleasant and particularly dangerous for humans. The 4000-pound, six-axis ...

Willow Garage’s TurtleBot is available for pre-orders.TurtleBot kits are expected to start shipping in early summer as units become available. You will not be charged until the kits ship. The core kit ...

Engineers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are making robots that serve beer. And more specifically, they’re making big robots that place beer cans in little robots, ...

Robotics remains a hot topic for almost all engineers. Many budding engineers would like to get involved with robotics but where to start? Buy a kit? Build one from scratch? I talked with Open ...