Robot. Death (or at least maiming) to the losers. The winner takes home a 20-pound trophy of a brass gear and claims championship bragging rights to the campus’ largest spectator contest.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a tiny, proof of concept robot that moves its four limbs by rapidly igniting a combination of methane and oxygen inside flexible joints.

Specifically, they are developing gears made from bulk metallic glass (BMG), a specially crafted alloy with properties that make it ideal for robotics. Throw a baseball, and you might say it's all ...

The Brothers Brick, a blog for grown-up Lego fans, reports that two people have used Lego Mindstorms NXT sets to create robots that interact ... with the Xbox 360 game Gears of War 3.

But these won't be typical robots with gears and motors; they will instead be made of carefully designed chemical shells-within-shells, with receptors on their surface. Instead of software and ...