Rock'em Sock'em Robots have been around for a long time. The boxing game is lots of fun and millions of people have played it at one time or another. Now, a company called Sharper Image has introduced ...

These normally sell for upward of $100 apiece, so this is almost like getting two for one. These dart-firing RC spiders are insanely cool and tons of fun. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books ...

Antweight combat robots are really lightweight. [Carter Hurd] used leftover materials to create a dustpan robot with a chomper (comically made from a Krave cereal box) to hold captured competitors in ...

Fighting underground: It is the most primitive, close combat a fighter may ever face. New technologies being developed by the United States and its partners seek to tackle age-old challenges that ...

When — not if — humans start competing against robots in combat sports, Wyoming is ready. The Wyoming Combat Sports Commission has already outlined ...

The project uses a Sabertooth 2X5 R/C in order to make a simple antweight R/C combat robot. The Sabertooth 2X5 R/C will be used to vary the motor speed to drive the robot around and to interpret ...

For decades, the idea of humanoid robots on the battlefield has belonged squarely to science fiction. They stalked through dystopian futures in The Terminator, filled the ranks of armies in Star Wars, ...

Last year's Battroborgs were a blast, but not without their quirks. Accuracy was not one of the tiny bot's strong points, and moving or turning was an exercise in frustration. This year, TOMY decided ...

With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

In the 21st century, will sailors be replaced by undersea robot warriors? "So we sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarine." We open ...