October 12, 2006Microsoft is buying Colloquis, a maker of natural language-processing technology used to provide automated customer assistance.TAGS:bot, Microsoft Corp.
May 29, 2009A chip engineer's simple dream--to build a robot that can bring him a cold one--turns into a years-long home-brewed robotics project.TAGS:robot, beer, quest, Star Wars, bot
February 28, 2005A Japanese firm has developed a mannequin robot that can strike glamorous poses for shoppers--and spy on what they're buying.TAGS:pose, robot, bot, photograph
April 2, 2007Start-up MyCyberTwin lets people create and customize a virtual personality that can chat with others while they're offline.TAGS:personality, bot, IM
May 5, 2006Attack designed to install adware on compromised computers disrupted critical communications at Seattle hospital.TAGS:Seattle, bot, hospital, California, complaint, adware
March 17, 2006They're hardly Kobe and Shaq, but these robots can fling a Nerf ball--and inspire kids to learn science, too. Photos: Bots hit the courtTAGS:robot, bot, science, Palo Alto, field, kid, California, U.S., video