robots

They may look horrifying. But they're here to help.

Researchers at the OpenWorm project recently hooked a simulated worm brain to a wheeled robot. The robot ended up moving back and forth without being explicitly programmed to so. It also avoided objects driven only by the interplay of external stimuli and digital neurons.

This looks like it's going to be an amazing event... and a lot of fun. Saturday (Dec. 13) at the Augusta Civic Center, it's the the Maine Robotics Expo featuring a breakfast with Maine Comedian Tim Sample. Breakfast will be held from 8:00am - 9:00am with the championship following from 9:30am - 3:30pm.

Would this please Sheldon Cooper?  Well, Stephen Hawking is warning that the rise of artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of the human race.

Hall Dale Middle and High School students did a GREAT job this year in the robotics competition. So well, in fact, they were surprised when they advanced! If you can help them, please do HERE! Here them on the Moose this morning!

It's man against machine. This is really cool. Watch the unbelievably fast KUKA robot take on Timo Boll, the German table tennis star.

Covers of the Stan Bush anthem 'The Touch' -- known to geeks from its use in 1986's 'Transformers: The Movie' -- are nothing new. But covers of 'The Touch' performed by an all-Transformer band? Now that's something we don't see every day.

Sadly, Matt Groening's long-running cartoon 'Futurama' was canceled earlier this week after seven seasons and 140 episodes on two different networks. Yes, we'll miss Fry, Leela and the rest of the crew, but we'll miss Bender, the acerbic, cigar-chomping robot, the most. But it's not all bad news -- Bender has rightfully earned himself a place among the most memorable robots in pop culture. Read Mo

Congratulations to Jamee Luce and Robotics Team #2648 Infinite Loop from Messalonskee High School for winning the FRC Pine Tree Regional Robotics Competition in Lewiston this weekend. Now they are headed to St. Louis, Missouri in 2 weeks for World Championships.

The all-robot band Compressorhead makes those Chuck E. Cheese animatrons look like a bunch of clowns!

This incredible video shows a woman's journey from almost total immobility to being able to pick up and move objects, thanks to surgical brain implants connected to a robotic arm named 'Hector.'

If you ever get a creepy feeling that the mannequins in the department store are watching you, you just might be right. Some fashion brands are now using mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch shoppers at their stores.