Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania have developed a new robot that balances and moves on a base composes of a single large ball. Called Ballbot, the robot is approximately as tall as a person and looks very ...

Honda Motor Company, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan and its American branch recently exhibited prototypes of two assistive devices at the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit, Michigan. The two wearable devices – designed to help the elderly ...

The Readybot Challenge, a non-profit club of senior engineers and designers headquartered in the Silicon Valley, California, has created a prototype robot capable of cleaning your kitchen. Equipped with two human-sized arms, the Readybot is capable of picking up various ...