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• Coming soon: A 12-foot-tall robot you can ride and steer

  By Kevin Lee | 15 May, 2012 07:17

  Here at GeekTech, we cover a lot of advanced robots, but what we really want to see is progress in the exoskeleton front (think Iron Man suit). Meet Vaudeville (sometimes called Kuratasu), a 12-foot-tall, five-ton mech that you can get inside of and control like a real Mobile Suit.

• Researchers build a robot you can’t knock down; Robot apocalypse begins

  By Kevin Lee | 09 May, 2012 03:09

  After all of our advancements in walking robots, we still have yet to see one that can pick itself back up. Current automatons either need to be helped back up or specifically designed to do so.

• Flying robots play James Bond theme

  By AAP | 06 March, 2012 08:27

  A video shows flying robots darting through hoops, working together in swarms and even forming a band to play James Bond film theme music.

• 11 cool robots you may not have heard of - check 'em out

  By Michael Cooney | 18 November, 2011 08:57

  What do Mars, the Terminator, an ostrich and hair-washing have to do with each other? Ask the robots

• Cyborg plants render humans even more obsolete

  By Rachel Martin | 21 September, 2011 04:25

  The cyborg plant is not a new concept. The robot plant replacement is even less new: You can buy one for a price of $4.19 from ThinkGeek, after all. But a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich isn't interested in solar-powered plastic toys or surgically-altered self-lighting plants that hang on a wall (creepy!) -- they're giving plants the ability to feed, water, and sun themselves, by augmenting them with iRobot technology and wheels.

• Google Blames a Human for its Robo-Car Crash

  By Paul Suarez | 07 August, 2011 10:45

  One of Google's self-driving cars got into an accident earlier this week. But Google is claiming the auto-pilot-equipped Prius was actually flipped into manual mode when the accident happened, making this a case of user error.

• Caterpillar robot rolls up, freaks out, goes fast

  By Kevin Lee | 28 April, 2011 06:43

  We’ve all seen the robots slowly trotting on legs or snaking along. But thankfully the GoQBot, designed by Tufts University, is looking to change that with break-neck speed. Inspired by the reactions of a caterpillar under attack, the GoQBot pops into a roll with an angular velocity of 300 rpm--which looks pretty quick based on the video published by Bioinspiration & Biomimetics—to cover a distance of 25cm.

• Robotic Herds Could Be the Next Step in Farming

  By Blair Hanley Frank | 01 March, 2011 12:39

  Fully autonomous herds of robots could be the future of farming, or at least that's what one roboticist thinks. Trossen Robotics forum member Vanmunch has developed an "Autonomous Micro Planter," which he's named Prospero.

• The industrial robot revolution

  By Sandra Gittlen | 20 February, 2012 22:25

  One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.

• 10 tech research projects to watch

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2012 02:10

  Technology firms wowed us in 2011, delivering tablets, ultrathin laptops, innovative cloud services, and voice command digital assistants. Not so long ago, the technology underlying these products was nothing more than research and development projects. So, in an effort to peek into our not-so-distant tech future, here's a glimpse at ten promising projects percolating in tech research labs.

• Sony's 10 greatest tech flops

  By Martyn Williams | 03 November, 2010 10:53

  Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia and PlayStation have helped keep it there. But no success story is failure-free. Let's take a look back at some Sony products that didn't win consumers' hearts and minds.

• The 10 best hacks of 2010 (so far)

  By Alessondra Springmann | 26 May, 2010 03:14

  In honor of Towel Day, and the Glorious 25th of May, here are ten of our most favorite hacks featured in Geek Tech in the last five months, running the gambit from phone, car, and CPU mods. Read on for some great moments in geek!

• Robots improve safety, efficiency at Thai hospital

  By Dan Nystedt | 15 May, 2009 06:44

  A Thai hospital famous for medical tourism and celebrated for its use of new technologies is turning to robotics to become more efficient and improve patient safety.