Installations of new robots set a record and peaked in 2005, with 126,700 new units, 30 percent more than were installed in 2004, and nearly 13 percent more than the 110,600 industrial robots that are ...

The idealistic robot Rodney Copperbottom heads to the city, dreaming of becoming an inventor like his hero Bigweld. Bigweld's company holds sway over the robot world, but its once friendly philosophy ...

“Robots” came to life over the weekend as the launch of Fox’s CGI toon easily took the top spot with an estimated $36.5 million at 3,776 playdates. But moviegoers showed only moderate interest in ...

Fox is waiting more than six months — forever in DVD land nowadays — to release its $126 million-grossing toon “Robots,” but the Sept. 20 debut will mark the studio’s first simultaneous bow for the ...

PARENTS watching "Robots" are going to love the notion that babies can be outfitted with volume control buttons. This adult joke will surely be lost on the kids in the audience. But they'll be too ...

SAN FRANCISCO --If you happen to be anywhere near the gymnasium at San Francisco State University this weekend and hear a series of very loud crashes or the sound of saw blades cutting violently ...

Robots tried yesterday to navigate a makeshift Martian terrain as part of the 2005 Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Robot Competiton. Robots were built by first-year honors engineering students ...

Purdue University will sponsor a nine-day tribute to robotics during two separate events open to the public March 10-19. The first event features ASIMO, which Honda Motor Co. created and bills as the ...

The 2005 World Expo (formerly the World’s Fair, famous for once introducing the world to ice cream cones and also communism) in Japan will be greeting its guests with robots when it opens later this ...