Robots

Robots lose $20 million on Facebook IPO

25 May 2012

Citigroup's automated trading desk reportedly lost $20 million on the Facebook IPO

Synchronized Robots Dance to ‘Thriller’

25 May 2012

These robots aren't just some animatronic dance troupe from an amusement park; no, these machines can actually judge if they're a step or two behind the rest of the dancers and catch up.

MIT researchers devise new means to synchronize a group of robots (w/ Video)

25 May 2012

(Phys.org) -- For several years, roboticists have been working out ways to get a group of robots to perform synchronized activities as demonstrated most often in dance routines. It’s not just about trying to create humanoid machines that can better entertain us though, it’s about getting them to perform simple small scale synchronized activities so that a means can be found to scale up such ...