For robots, Robogames is the ultimate fighting competition. It's where brain turns into brawn, electronics trump athletic prowess and the arena is heavy not with sweat, but with the smell of solder ...

There's a certain excitement inherent in the metal-against-metal battles that pit robots against each other in an action-packed thunderdome. For over a decade, the nonprofit group Robotics Society of ...

Thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign, the "Olympics of robots" is back, once more invading San Mateo, Calif. The event will later be released as a Web series and DVD. Journalist Bonnie Burton ...

Every spring, San Francisco is host to an international robot competition known as the RoboGames, featuring tests of strength and skill. This year RoboGames is April 23-25, and organizers have joined ...

San Francisco — The hundreds of youngsters who hooted and cheered as combat machines ruthlessly bashed each other at the RoboGames competition here last month showed how entertaining robots can be.