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Chemistry World February 11, 2013 Laura Howes	Soft robots take a leap forward It might not be able to leap buildings in a single bound but the latest soft robot to escape George Whitesides' lab is a jumper rather than a crawler and can jump at least 30 times its body height.
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	My Very Own Robot Want to rig your own robot? After more than a year of development, White Box Robotics is preparing to ship its 912 series of customizable robots (shown) in the first quarter of 2005.
PC Magazine January 29, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do.
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel	Tiny Musician Robots Could Benefit Soldiers University of Pennsylvania researchers have been attracting attention for their work with nano-quadrotor robots.
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Neil Savage	Soft Robots for Hard Problems Squishy robots may move and manipulate objects in new ways
National Defense July 2011 Eric Beidel	Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders.
PC Magazine February 2, 2005 Natalie Goel	Robots in Motion Bust out your robot dance move now, because it may become obsolete.
Chemistry World July 9, 2015 Matthew Gunther	3D printing allows soft robots to rise up Although they may not be taking over the world any time soon, a 3D printed soft robot mimicking the flexible body of an invertebrate has been manufactured by a group of scientists in the US.
InternetNews April 4, 2006 Tim Scannell	Funding Robotics in The War Years Robots are being groomed to take an increasingly active role in military and Homeland Security operations.
IndustryWeek November 18, 2009 Peter Alpern	Panasonic Making Aggressive Robot Push Panasonic is getting serious about robots and has set its sights on sales of $1.1 billion by 2015.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Forecasts Greater Use of Robots in Ground Combat Officials who oversee robot technology development at the Defense Department say it is just the beginning.
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Soldiers Teaching Robots Battlefield Duties An Army Research Lab is working to instill robots with complex behaviors, thus making them suitable for the battlefield.
National Defense November 2010 Eric Beidel	Will Robots Be Asked to Fool the Enemy? In the course of investigating trust between robots and humans, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed algorithms that tell a robot when and how to deceive.
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Enlists More Help from Tiny Robots Soldiers in Afghanistan want their own personal robots to scan the insides of buildings and find homemade bombs.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts.
Chemistry World February 17, 2014 Emma Stoye	Cell-powered robots swim like sperm Scientists in the US have combined a synthetic polymer with living heart cells to make a tiny robot that swims by undulating its tail, in a similar way to sperm.
Inc. April 2006 Chuck Green	A Record Year For Robots New orders of industrial robots jumped by 23 percent in 2005, thanks in part to growing interest in robots among entrepreneurs. Larger tax credits for purchases of new equipment are driving the trend, as are other factors.
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Next-Generation Robots: Bigger and Better? The exploits of bomb-sniffing robots in Iraq and Afghanistan have solidified their role as useful combat tools, but the technology needs to be pushed much further, say robot designers and engineers.
National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down The end of the nearly nine-year war closed one chapter for a technology that came into its own during the conflict.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close.
IEEE Spectrum December 2006	Just Charge It At Robot Kitchen, in Hong Kong, robots greet, seat, and feed patrons.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Navy to Field a Family of Next-Generation Bomb Disposal Robots The Navy will field a family of bomb disposal robots to replace the ad hoc commercial systems being used in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children Robots address some of the deficits we know are present in children with autism, especially coordination and social problems.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Onward Robotic Soldiers A major Defense Department initiative could be a boon to robot manufacturers. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Searching for Signs of Life In a test run in Chile's Atacama Desert, a rover built by a research team has become the first robot to identify life.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	For Now, Lethal Robots Not Likely to Run on Auto-Pilot Bart Everett, technical director for robots at the Navy's space and naval warfare systems center, acknowledged that the military isn't ready for the next generation of mechanized soldiers.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Fast Talk: Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Robots The director of MIT's Personal Robots Group uses crowdsourced data to teach robots about human behavior.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2009 Courtney E. Howard	iRobis Infuses Robots with Cognition The digital battlefield of the future could be closer than we anticipated, as scientists continue to make headway in the design and development of autonomous robots.
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Erico Guizzo	Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Eric Smalley	Robot Runs Like Humans Researchers have developed mathematical principals for enabling human-like running in bipedal robots, including the ability to recover balance. They used the principals to develop control software that allows a two-legged robot to run.
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson	Slow Pace of Robot Acquisition Programs Frustrates End Users End users of explosive ordnance disposal robots said at a recent conference that the Pentagon's procurement process is clearly not working for them.
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Erik Sofge	America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? The MULE (Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment) is one of many robots being developed for combat.
National Defense March 2009 Stew Magnuson	Reverse Engineering the Brain May Accelerate Robotics Research Machines that walk upright will assist civilians and the military alike, said Stefan Schaal, associate professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Southern California.
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	Bug-Sized `Bots for the Urban Battle The Army Research Laboratory in April awarded a $37 million contract to BAE Systems to develop biologically based surveillance and reconnaissance robots to help soldiers conduct urban warfare.
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Susan Karlin	Robotics' Wild Kingdom An engineer looks to nature to make robots that slither through pipes and climb walls.
Entrepreneur January 2008 Amanda C. Kooser	Rise of the Robots Robots are well on their way from the pages of science fiction to your front door. In fact, advanced humanoid robots could be a part of our everyday life as early as 10 years from now.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Wall-Climbing Robot Spies Gecko-inspired robots rely on directional adhesive feet; a new wall-climbing robot uses electrostatic adhesion.
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward	Robo-Husky: Teaching a Robotic Dog to Walk Funded by the military research agency DARPA, the bizarre, four-legged creature may someday haul heavy loads and keep troops out of some high-risk locations.
Popular Mechanics June 26, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Shift on Future Combat Systems Will Rush High-Tech Gear to Iraq Pentagon officials announced big changes for its closely watched Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, aiming to bring combat sensors and robots to the battlefield more quickly.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Morgen E. Peck	Why Toddlers Love Robots Entertainment robots have become sophisticated enough that they can charm toddlers for weeks, or even months, and could soon be useful to teachers as permanent educational assistants, according to research.
PC Magazine March 15, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Dino Bot Giving human responses and skills to new breeds of robots is all the rage.
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Mini-Flail Robots Readied for Afghanistan Bomb Clearing Operations The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization will send expendable robots to Afghanistan next year that can move ahead of dismounted troops and destroy hidden bombs.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Humanoid robots walk naturally There's a reason most movie robots have wheels in place of legs or are powered by an embedded human. Making machines walk on two legs is exceedingly difficult.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 Smalley & Patch	Bots, humans play together Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are betting that putting humans and robots on the same soccer team will encourage the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding.
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Robo Decisions Teaching robots to make more humanlike decisions.
PC Magazine April 18, 2007 Erik Rhey	Q&A: iRobot Co-Founder Helen Greiner The co-founder and chairman of the board for iRobot talks about the future of helper robots, the PackBot in war zones, and women in technology.
National Defense August 2009 Jason Jacks	Battery to Extend Work-Life Of Bomb-Disposal Robots A team of Penn State University researchers developed a battery for the military's bomb-disposal Talon robots that has a 23-percent longer life span than current power packs.
CIO August 27, 2008 Kristin Burnham	5 Things iRobot President Helen Greiner Has Learned About Innovation Helen Greiner is president and co-founder of iRobot, a company that invents military and household robots. Innovation, she says, is the essence of her business.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Are Intuitive Surgical and iRobot Just Babies? Robotic technology is still in the early stages of its development, and it will only get better. The best time for investors to jump in is when that company is young.