ROBOT GROUP | Clayton Bailey has made approximately 100 life-size robot sculptures of found objects since 1976. He searches the local flea markets and scrap metal yards for discarded home appliances, cookware, bicycle and automobile parts. He carefully grafts the parts together into new forms; reincarnating them as robot sculptures.

Cyber-dog born to patrol the home | Sanyo’s chrome quadruped is designed to act as a guard dog, equipped with a camera that scans for intruders and beams pictures to a 3G phone.

Cool or Caring? | Sony, Honda Mull Home Robots’ Role

Lord of the Robots | The director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab says the age of smart, mobile machines is already beginning. You just have to know where to find them — say, in oil wells.

High school robots battle it out in Florida | “The brains behind the mysterious ‘Ginger’ contraption has been more than an inventor during his prolific technological career. Dean Kamen also founded a national robotics competition for high school students, the finals of which took place this weekend.”

Afghan eXplorer | The Afghan Explorer is a semi-autonomous mobile robot that can practice elements of journalistic reportage in hostile, off-limits environments.

Quest for ‘alcohol gene’ sets monkeys on binge.