21st-Century Robotics (May 2004)
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Cover; 21st-Century Robotics; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

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A New Race of Robots; 21st-Century Robotics; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 8 Page(s)

Around the U.S., engineers are finishing one-year crash projects to create robots able to dash 200 miles through the Mojave Desert in a day, unaided by humans. Scientific American tailed the odds-on favorite team for 10 months and found that major innovations in robotics are not enough to win such a contest. Obsession is also required (originally published March 2004)

The Spirit of Exploration; 21st-Century Robotics; by George Musser; 6 Page(s)

NASA's rover fights the curse of the Angry Red Planet (originally published March 2004)

Controlling Robots with the Mind; 21st-Century Robotics; by Miguel A.L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin; 7 Page(s)

People with nerve or limb injuries may one day be able to command wheelchairs, prosthetics and even paralyzed arms and legs by "thinking them through" the motions (originally published October 2002)

An Army of Small Robots; 21st-Century Robotics; by Robert Grabowski, Luis E. Navarro-Serment and Pradeep K. Khosla; 5 Page(s)

For robot designers these days, small is beautiful (originally published November 2003)

Rise of the Robots; 21st-Century Robotics; by Hans Moravec; 5 Page(s)

By 2050 robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence (originally published December 1999)

Plug-and-Play Robots; 21st-Century Robotics; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)

Personal robots may soon be as cheap and customizable as personal computers (originally published April 2004)

Robots That Suck; 21st-Century Robotics; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)

Have they finally come out with a robot for the rest of us? (originally published February 2003)

Long-Distance Robots; 21st-Century Robotics; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)

The technology of telepresence makes the world even smaller (originally published December 2001)

Kibbles and Bytes; 21st-Century Robotics; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)

How much is that robotic doggy in the window? (originally published June 2001)