Sarah Perkins takes her education seriously. So seriously she's using a learning robot to take classes at Drake University in Des Moines from halfway across the country. The Des Moines native ...

But the UC Irvine law student attended classes virtually in December with help from a robot she controlled from home. She could talk, listen and be called on during class discussions through her ...

Unlike the real-life destruction machines that feature on Robot Wars, RoboCode is a game where teams use Java to program one or more robot tanks to battle in an arena against each other.