“I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size...

The suitability of robots for space missions is obvious: they’re tough, they’re precisely controllable, they don’t sissy out and die without air and...

Intel has had a little chat about the future of the computing and robotics at the recent IDF event, and has come out with some alarming facts.

AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot’s control system up close....

Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

Scientists at Bristol’s University of the West of England yesterday unveiled a ROBOT with a beating heart. The half machine, half puppet Emotibot responds to...

Scientists say they can now build near-perfect replications of a human being, and that they finally have the technology to bring the inanimate to life. Scientists are...

Advanced humanoid robot Asimo just got a new superpower – it can understand three humans shouting at once. For now the modified Asimo’s new ability are being...

A spaceship descends with a thunderous roar and deposits a futuristic probe before taking off again. The Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) soon activates and...

Fewer astronauts, more robots. That’s the call from three European aerospace engineers, who argue that crewed satellite repair missions - like the ones flown by...

In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to...

Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a...

ROBOTS could fill the jobs of 3.5m people in greying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country’s population shrinks.

Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a think tank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country’s population...

It sounds like something straight from a children’s comic. But British scientists will today take the first steps in an astonishing project to create the first...

Mr. Dextre stands taller than a house, has two seven-jointed arms and can fly around the Earth in about 90 minutes. But he is not a superhero, nor is “he” a...

YES # Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent. # Merger of humans and machines...

Scientists are taking the first step towards testing potentially hazardous chemicals on cells grown in a laboratory, without using live animals.

By mid-century getting it on with an electronic femme-fatale or a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape.

Heard of Tamagotchi, those small red devices where children can play with the virtual pets. Now faced with a declining birthrate and a rapidly aging population,...