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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.

Maybe some bosses worry that they'll be seen as weak by reports, and more committed to their teams than the success of the company by their own bosses, if they advocate too strongly or provide too much flexibility? That's the only reason I can imagine to not treat people like responsible adults with lives outside the office walls.

A tidbit of information from the recent shareholders event held by contract manufacturer Foxconn got the blogoshere and fanboys of Apple, in a tizzy recently.

If you've never seen 'bots dancing to Psy's breakout hit, you should. Guaranteed it will make you feel better about the impending robot takeover.

Despite numerous tantalizing hints and purported leaks , no one really knows what Apple's iPhone 6 will look like, but some now believe they know who - or what - will build the eagerly anticipated phone: a legion of manufacturing robots.

Making roti, a traditional staple food for millions of people worldwide, is equal parts art and science.

She's certainly a welcome TV presence this summer as the star of "Extant," a 13-episode thriller on CBS where she plays Molly Woods, an unexpectedly expectant astronaut.

Getting robots to carry out repetitive tasks precisely and untiringly is relatively easy.

In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million.