An industrial robot might turn out to be the Next Big Thing at amusement parks. The Robocoaster is essentially a massive robotic arm with a rollercoaster-type harness attached to the end of it: Kuka ...

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Imagine shooting it out with bug-eyed monsters while pulling 2 g, and — just to make it interesting — flailing about like a straw in the wind. Sound like fun? Well, thanks to advances in robotics, you ...

It's not every day a 7.5-metre robotic arm hoists you into the air, thrashes you around -- and expects you to pay for the encounter. But if David Halliday, vice-president and director for special ...

The mechanical love-child of an industrial assembler and articulated centrifuge, a Robocoaster can flick, flip, and spin riders better than any traditional coaster could. Our friends at Oobject.com ...

Standing still as a statue amid the colorful carnival rides on the floor of the Orange County Convention Center is a scary-looking contraption called the RoboCoaster G2. Basically, it’s an industrial ...

The next generation of white-knuckle theme park rides, promising people a more realistic sensation of blasting off and floating through space than existing ones, is being developed by infrastructure ...