The US Army has decided to move it's Robotics Systems Joint Project Office to Warren, MI, outside of Detroit. In response to this, many large robotics companies are following suit and opening offices in the area. The office is currently hiring engineers and designers to create robots to do “d
 In what is pretty stunning news to me, iRobot has purchased Nekton Research for $10 million USD. The reason this is so stunning, is because Nekton is 30min down the road from me, and I've interviewed there! Nekton is a small business located in Durham North Carolina and specializes in unde
The Mars Phoenix Lander is dying dead (see below). Dying a slow death of hypothermia. You see, the fading Martian summer sunlight is causing Phoenix to become starved for photons with which it charges its batteries. Without a fresh battery charge each day, Phoenix is unable to keep its heaters r…
Robots turn on humans! For Halloween Gizmodo sponsored a costume contest. This year's theme was "Robots Turn on Humans." You'll definitely want to check out the contest results and the clever and funny costumes. More robot mayhem! Did you spot any great costumes this year? Tell us about them i…
Here's three wonderful LEGO robots built by legoloverman. There's closeups of the three (and quite a few others) in the flickr gallery. Three LEGO robots built by legoloverman [Via Brothers Brick]
