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Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America's Army to learn how to defuse bombs.

Roving robots are something we take for granted.

Asimov wrote "a robot may not injure a human being, or through inactivity allow a human being to come to harm," but some of our robotic war machines are already challenging that. As a counterpoint, let's take a look at the bots that were created to help care for us. The softer side of bots, if you will.

Robots are getting more expressive, more than being mere lumps of plastic designed to do jobs for us in handy ways. They can now almost sing..

Qbo Open-Source Bot Par Excellence Qbo is a kind of smaller, cheaper PR2 --he's an open-source robot platform (using the ROS operating system developed for PR2), which could aid robot research as well as educating students in robotics and computer programming.

What's been happening this week in the world of robotics?

As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week? Robot breakfast We've seen research roboticists perform various odd tricks with their robots, but this one takes the pancake

It has been written that: "At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." So what can this week's crop of mechanistic marvels tell us about ourselves? Juggling robots Juggling is surely a human-only art

A new wave of DIY engineers is transforming innovation into something that can be done at the kitchen table. Thank the maker movement for the technology that's changing the way we think about prototyping.

Robots that walk, robots that talk, robots that suck and, yes, robots that blow. We've got them all in this week's roundup: (Okay, we lied about the robots that talk bit...but some of them do, you know?) Loch, Singapore's Android Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has been working on its nation's most complex full-scale android yet--Loch, the Low Cost Humanoid--for a few years, but he's been largely overlooked. This is a shame, because though he's from a nation you wouldn't normally associate with advanced robotics, he can walk, manage stairs, and resist being pushed off course.

These amazing bro-bots work in pairs and in three dimensions to vastly improve efficiency and organization--without incessant high-fiving! Watch a time-lapse video of them moving Diapers.com's entire stock to a new location in 36 hours flat! With new upgrades, Kiva Systems robots, the productivity-boosting, pick-and-pull helpers at the warehouses of Diapers.com, Walgreens, Gilt Groupe , and many others, are working in pairs--and in all three dimensions. And they're answering a huge new e-commerce demand

Robots, robots everywhere, and soon they'll begin to think. The tech behind our future android assistants evolves every minute. Here's the latest

"You're on the air" takes on a whole new meaning with Jelli radio, which is creating traditional radio stations in Las Vegas that are entirely sourced from the social web.

What's that new music to scientists' ears? Tech that makes tiny bots less sticky.

Swiss manufacturer ABB has revealed a prototype robot called Frida that's designed to be dexterous enough to replace a human being on a production line.