From botJunkie
In a mere 50 virtual generations, swarm bots (remember them?) using genetic software evolved the capacity to lie to other robots about the location of a source of food. Initially, the robots were programmed as a group to search for an object that represented food, and they gradually learned to emit a blue light [...]

After many questions on the subject, I finally spent a few hours today to test the viability of creating an IO server in Grasshopper for Arduino.  After doing this type of work in Maya for a few years, Grasshopper seems like a good next step as Rhino is a much more common tool.  So far [...]

via Technology Review

To assist humans around the house, robots will need to be able to deal with the unfamiliar. But while researchers can preprogram robots to do increasingly sophisticated tasks, they face a much bigger challenge in teaching them to adapt to unstructured environments. A robot developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, however, is [...]

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via Hack A Day
Matt Denton has converted a standard hexapod robot into a CNC (and a plotter).
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Over the years, the development of video games is trying its best to produce the virtual reality experience which getting closer to the reality. By changing the interface, from Atari’s joystick to Analog Vibration of PS2 joystick, then Gun Shape controller for shooting game, and Dance Mania’s floor controller to Wii wiimote, video game design [...]

via /.
Many of today’s underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The ‘Robofish’ can work cooperatively with each other. ‘The Robofish, which are roughly the size of a 10-pound salmon, [...]

Shown many places:
Monkey controls robotic arm directly from his brain: