Let's see here, we've got a C3PO figure here, so that's pretty geeky. But it also looks to be a Lego figure of C3PO, which is even more nerdy. And it's 11-inches tall and a limited edition figure that you...
In our three part series on the future of robotics, we've been trying to figure out just what it would take to build C-3PO for real. First we asked James Kuffner, a Carnegie Mellon professor who is working to build...
In the first part of our expert roundtable, we asked AI whiz and CMU assistant professor James Kuffner what it would take to breathe life into C-3PO. Now we turn to Matt Denton, who runs an animatronic company in the...
Science fiction has been teasing us with robots for decades. From Isaac Asimov's tome-like novels filled with law-bound robots to the helpful or menacing 'bots on the big screen, many of us grew up with the idea that a robot-filled...