Humans Beat AI In Robot Wars
News Human innovation has fought off competition from robots created using artificial intelligence in an online experiment by boffins at a London university. The online Sodarace competition, created by the Queen Mary University of London, pitched...
[November 28, 2003, 12:30]
Never Mind The Brits, Here Are The ISPAs
News It might not have been the Brit Awards, but master of ceremonies and Robot Wars presenter Craig Charles, along with most of the audience, was happy of the fact. Like Robot Wars, your industry looks really geeky from the outside," he told the ISP...
[February 21, 2003, 8:25]
Build A Killer Robot, Win Cash Prizes
News With that in mind, Carlberg built two walking robots, PHM and Buzzcut, for the 1997 Robot Wars. Like many competitors, Carlberg was inspired when he saw a similar event, Robot Wars, on television. As a long-time competitor in robot combat, Roski...
[August 18, 1999, 10:41]
News Schmooze: Gaming Gets Ugly
News While cuteness appeal may have made Aibo take off in Japan, the Schmoozer predicts that this particular form of utility will see the dawn of the robot age in the Western world. Transforming a laptop into a robot
[May 24, 2002, 15:27]
My Friend, The Robot
News Future robots might not look like C-3PO of "Star Wars" fame or Rosie on "The Jetsons", but they are becoming more personal than even their creators might have realised.iRobot chief executive Colin Angle often fields questions about the Roomba...
[May 26, 2006, 12:40]
Orbital Robot Runs Linux
News The robot is a six-inch sphere inspired by the sparring droid that Luke Skywalker fights in the movie "Star Wars", but NASA engineers say its functionality is closer to the "tricorder" tool used in Star Trek: it senses the pressure and temperature...
[July 24, 2001, 17:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What price a merger between the Cruft's franchise and Robot Wars? Japan delighted and enraptured the world with Sony's Aibo, a fumbling puppy of a robot that carefully ambles around the place, playing games and making cute noises.
[March 16, 2001, 14:06]
'Menace' A Worthy Prequel
News One exception might be a battle between an army of amphibious Gungans and rank after rank of robot soldiers, which, unfortunately, are about as terrifying as Tinker Toy sculptures. And certainly the script has a robot-written feel to it.
[May 20, 1999, 9:03]
Toy Robots Do Your Bidding
News The child can write a program that is downloaded to the robot. Robot dogs are one thing, but what about actual robots? Sony was showing off AIBO (short for artificial intelligence robot), its robot dog that first fetched attention in the United...
[February 15, 2000, 9:18]
Giving Robots The Gift Of Sight
News The HelpMate, an R2-D2-shaped robot sold by medical products firm Pyxis, carries blood samples, medicine and meals through the corridors of more than 100 hospitals. Matsushita Electric Works is working on its own medical courier robot and expects...
[December 31, 2002, 9:21]
Xansa Founder Honoured With BCS Award
News One Hawk-Eye executive who went up to collect the award from Phillippa Forrester, the presenter of television program Robot Wars, later told ZDNet UK what he thought about winning the award. The British Computer Society (BCS) IT Professional Awards...
[October 20, 2004, 18:05]
Programming Prizes Benefit Everyone
Leader Compared with these, Code Jam is more like Robot Wars -- and lots of people are uncomfortable with that. We love giving ourselves awards. From the Olympics to Crufts via the Oscars and Whitbread, there's nothing we like better than working out who...
[May 3, 2006, 16:30]
Star Wars Film Title Revealed Online
News He claims to have also spotted some "fantastic slug-like robot designs". According to the source, the film is to be called Star Wars Episode 2: The Shadow Falls. A sales representative, on a business trip to Fox Studios, claims to have seen...
[February 21, 2001, 11:39]
US Report: IMac To Star At Macworld
News But the machine is also Apple's biggest weapon for the future and the company is planning to use the upcoming Macworld Expo to hit computer users with it. It's the first time consumers will be able to see it, use it," an Apple spokeswoman said of...
[July 7, 1998, 6:40]
