Gizmo Watch

Robotics has seriously taken to insects as inspiration for robots. Miniaturization technology too has effectively contributed to their cause. To add some intelligent microbots, inspired by the swarm of biological insects, to the long list of these...

In my elongated career here I have seen numerous types of surveillance robots, of all kinds I thought, but this is the best I have ever seen. The EyeDrive, as they call the compact surveillance robot, is a remote-controlled, all terrain, lightweight...

George Devol, the creator of the first industrial robot, once quipped, ‘if people are stupid enough to let robots eventually dominate mankind, maybe they deserve it.’ Well, the recent advancements in robotics prove that our stupidity march is...

Technological innovations are sometimes hard to explain. A robot designed in the 1980s hasn't found its match even after two decades, despite the fact that robotics is evolving at a breath-taking pace. The WABOT-2, a Mozart among humanoids of its era,...