A new race of robots / W. Wayt Gibbs -- The spirit of exploration / George Musser -- Controlling robots with the mind / Miguel A.L. Nicolelis and John K. Chapin -- An army of small robots / Robert Grabowski, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, and Pradeep K. Khosla -- Plug-and-play robots / W. Wayt Gibbs -- Robots that suck / George Musser -- Long-distance robots ; Kibbles and bytes / Mark Alpert