If you’re a Mecha/BattleTech fan who is eagerly looking forward to the day when giant walking robots are stomping about the ravaged battlefields of a post-apocalyptic earth, your dream came just one tiny step (or more accurately: a few stumbling, rattling steps) closer to fruition. As shown on YouTube, an enterprising Japanese inventor has managed [...]

When you first hear the phrase underwater logging, you may think of underwater basket-weaving, that often joked about imaginary college course. Unlike the weaving of baskets, however, harvesting lumber underwater has proven to be a viable (and profitable) business for Triton Logging, a Canadian forestry equipment firm. Many trees are submerged in dams and reservoirs, and [...]

In one of the coolest combinations of robotics, visual effects and advertising we’ve seen in some time, French automaker Citroen has produced not one, but two tv ads featuring the Citroen C4 (a small vehicle primarily available only in Europe) transforming into a Transformer-esque character. In the first ad, the C4 does some warm-up exercises [...]

In news that will surely stoke the imaginations of SciFi novelists everywhere, AP Business Writer Yuri Kageyama has news of a recent demonstration by Honda in Japan showing a robotic hand — connected to magnetic resonance imaging hardware (MRI) and some powerful software — that was able to replicate some simple hand gestures of the [...]

We’ve already posted a bit about robotic vehicles here at nxtbot.com, but what about robotic garages? Now we have news that VW has developed a robotic car storage and retrieval system for storing new vehicles. It seems that the car grabber can fetch your new car for you if you happen to purchase a vehicle [...]