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NASA plans to send Google smartphones with state of the art 3D sensing technology into orbit to use them as eyes and brains for its newest sci-fi inspired machinery.

Weapons systems are getting smarter, and people are getting nervous. In May, Human Rights Watch called for the outlawing of autonomous military machines with lethal capabilities.

Recently, I visited the China International Battery Fair in Shenzhen. This is perhaps the largest battery show in the world, with over 980 exhibitors covering three-quarter of a million square feet.

This sounds like something straight out of "Battle Star Galactica," but I assure you this is actual technology the Marine Corps are testing.

Forbes Media COO Mike Federle announces at Monterey Plaza Hotel his company's plan to host a summit in Salinas next summer on technology use in agriculture.

A year ago, physicist Daniel Goldman sent me a video of a skeletal creature pushing its way through sand.

What clues might brain metrics hold about the skill levels of surgeons who perform robot-assisted surgeries? Looking for better ways to assess the proficiency of surgeons performing these complex procedures, researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo determined whether cognitive assessment can effectively measure the ... (more)

The 21st annual Learning Fair, which encourages kids of all ages to discover technology, industry and the arts, runs from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday July 11, at the Jackson Area Career Center, 6800 Browns Lake Road.

But Syfy's "Sharknado 2" trailer, this one about a shark storm hitting Manhattan, just went up and features chain saws buzzing, the Statue of Liberty's severed head whizzing, Tara Reid kvetching and Robert Klein barking "This is the Big Apple! Something bites us; we bite back!" In a recent interview with CNBC, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and ... (more)

Bright purple lights pulsed through an empty hospital room as UPMC Passavant's new robot, Violet, completed its work.

This week--more than three dozen students in southern West Virginia are exploring the fields of science, technology, and art.

Studies from other hospitals indicate the robots can decrease contamination in hospital rooms by 95 percent and decrease hospital-associated infections by more than 50 percent.

A quick glance at the weekly news and feature stories from the past couple of weeks has shown, among other things, a starfish shaped robot that cleans your rugs, curtains and floors; a newly-released X-Men movie featuring the giant assassin antagonists who happen to be robots; and a robot who is hitchhiking across Canada.

The biggest experiment of its kind is camped out on the ocean north of Alaska. The machines could revolutionise our understanding of Arctic sea ice A TIRELESS scientific expedition is currently encamped across a huge stretch of Arctic pack ice.

The new humanoid robot named 'Kodomoroid' is pictured during a press preview at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology in Tokyo on June 24, 2014.

Apple had sued China's Patent Review Committee and the Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co.

Buy this photo Wayne Tubby, an engineer from Rutherford Appleton Space Laboratory, with Bob, a robot used to develop and test software for rover robots sent to explore Mars SPOUTING Shakespeare and acting out a scene from The Terminator, Artie the robot was the star of a science and technology fair in Oxford yesterday.

How would it feel to see a robot beg? Would you give it a few dollars, or just walk away? These are questions curator Murray Horne hopes to answer in the exhibit "La Cour des Miracles," on view at the Wood Street Galleries July 11 through September 7. The art show features robots in various states of distress, interacting with and soliciting ... (more)

Teamwork between humans and robots will be the motto of the future. But robots may not injure humans at all.

On today's show: The craziest robot restaurant you'll ever see, what military aircraft may look like in 2040, and beer vending machines at Target Field.