Rock'em Sock'em Robots have been around for a long time. The boxing game is lots of fun and millions of people have played it at one time or another. Now, a company called Sharper Image has introduced ...

These normally sell for upward of $100 apiece, so this is almost like getting two for one. These dart-firing RC spiders are insanely cool and tons of fun. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books ...

Antweight combat robots are really lightweight. [Carter Hurd] used leftover materials to create a dustpan robot with a chomper (comically made from a Krave cereal box) to hold captured competitors in ...

Combat Creatures are little, spider-like robots with six legs. The first versions of these robots are known as Attacknids, and they can fight each other, firing projectiles with a range of 30 feet. If ...

The project uses a Sabertooth 2X5 R/C in order to make a simple antweight R/C combat robot. The Sabertooth 2X5 R/C will be used to vary the motor speed to drive the robot around and to interpret ...

For kids, a new way to control virtual characters is all fun and games. For soldiers, more intuitive controls for robots could mean the difference between life and death. Using the controller from the ...

This year, two Army IBCTs and a not-yet-disclosed Marine unit will be testing variants of a load-bearing robot vehicle. Todd South tells us more. ARLINGTON – This year, two Army IBCTs and a ...

[professor churlz] wrote in to let us know his results with modifying radio control ESCs (Electronic Speed Controllers) for use in a large (250lb range) BattleBot’s drivetrain. It’s a very long and ...