The Fall issue of the most excellent Robot Magazine is on newstands now. Among other juicy fare, it has a cover story on the Microsoft Robotics Studio and a closer look at the NXT Mindstorms system. On the mag’s website, they also have a preview of an upcoming feature piece for the Winter issue on the amazing MANOI Humanoid Robots (which look like they were beamed straight out of a Japanese anime). The Web piece has lots of photos of the two main MANOI models (pictured above), bot innards, and a hi-res exploded schematic. Also: Tom Atwood, Editor-in-Chief of Robot, was recently on the Daedalus Howell Radio Show. You can access an MP3 of it here.