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I AM in Jochen Steil's lab, grasping a segmented, whiplashing tentacle that resists and tries to push me away.

Soft robots-which don't just have soft exteriors, but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels-have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics .

No job is sacred any more: Even the technology trade show booth babe's role has been taken over by robots.

Second graders at Elmore Elementary School in Houston met with Buster the School Bus, a three-foot by two-foot by two-foot robotic school bus produced by Robotronics to learn about school bus safety.

Jonathan Bland is a student at Evansville Lutheran who's a cancer survivor. He is now attending his classes thanks to a robot.

Mobile robots and "smart" computers are threatening to replace up to half the U.S. workforce within the next decade or two, according to a Bloomberg report .

Are robots destined to beat humans at everything ? Maybe not or at least not yet.

The creators of the Roboy robot wanted it to move as much like a human as possible, using a skeleton of 3D-printed bones and joints, tendons -- and coiled springs in muscles.

The mechanical robot is no longer the main event in the robotics revolution, warns David Manners.

The White House's annual Economic Report of the President pushes a raft of proposals designed to make the U.S. economy stronger and more productive in the long run.

On Tuesday, KUKA robotics released a YouTube video of a table tennis match between former world No.

March 11, 2014: The California Department of Motor Vehicles must enact regulations that protect users' privacy in new regulations it is drafting that would cover Google's driverless cars and other "autonomous vehicles" traveling on California's highways, Consumer Watchdog told the DMV today.

Meet iStruct Demonstrator , also known as Charlie, the space robot monkey built by the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen, and exhibited this week at the CeBIT exhibition in Hanover, Germany.

A "toddler" robot that sees red, a digital master chef and a suitcase that never gets lost - new technology at the world's biggest high-tech fair has the potential to change lives.

In the past month two European technology companies have developed robots that can successfully play table tennis.

If you walk into art galleries around Bloomington this month, you may encounter paintings, sculptures and sketches from emerging artists.

To learn about the technology, applications, safety implications, and human impacts of this major advancement in the field, attend the Robotic Industries Association Collaborative Robots Workshop on April 16, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sixty years after Alan Turing's death, researchers have provided the first experimental evidence that validates Turing's theory of chemical morphogenesis in cell-like structures.

As a general rule, industrial robots aren't even remotely safe to be around. It's not their fault, really.

Surveillance. Online privacy. Robots. Food processing. Wearable computers. To get a sense of what's on the minds of the tech industry's thinkers, leaders and tinkerers, it's a good idea to head to Austin, Texas, rather than Silicon Valley this time of the year.