Robots News

Inhuman, unfeeling robots are a staple of science fiction - as is the fear that one day, their cold, logical minds might deem humans unnecessary.

Google has revealed it has taken over seven robotics companies in the past half a year and has begun hiring staff to develop its own product.

Detroit can go into bankruptcy, a judge has ruled. Likely it means that workers' pensions will be at least in part stolen from them.

Meet "Furhat," the face of tomorrow's interactive technology. An increasingly important -- and sometimes frustrating -- part of daily life is dealing with so-called "user interfaces."

Andy Rubin, the engineer heading Google's robotic effort and the man who built the Android software for smartphones, in Los Altos Hills, Calif.

Tuesday night, when Rabbi Yosef Langer lights a 22-foot menorah in San Francisco's Union Square, he'll get a helping hand -- an aluminum helping hand, that is -- from Issac the robot.

In response to the shootings at Sandy Hook, a California technology company created Knightscope, a 5-foot tall security robot.

Today sees the "Derbot" design challenge taking place at the University of Derby, setting student designed robots against each other.

The works on display at the Maison des Arts de Laval for their newest show, Et si les robots mangeaient des pommes? are but a few examples.

Sitting in front of my computer in my office on the East Coast, I am controlling a robot in Palo Alto, California.

"Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted," Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in the neglected film Southland Tales intones.

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com Inc., whose purchase of The Washington Post was announced Monday.

On December 1 Amazon announced their intention to use motorized, airborne drones to deliver packages directly to your home as early as 2015.

Researchers over at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in London may well be on the way to developing the ultimate expression of man-made symbiosis.

Having robots fly themselves to your doorstep is currently illegal. The sensor technology to avoid collisions isn't there yet.

The heroes in the films succeed by sending out a very strong electromagnetic pulse.

In collaboration with colleagues in Italy and the USA, researchers at Aarhus University have now taken a major step towards building the first nanorobot of DNA molecules that can encapsulate and release active biomolecules.

There is a changing mentality towards using automation in the food industry but the shift will not lead to job losses, according to Staubli.

At first glance, this flying jellyfish prototype doesn't look very much like a jellyfish, but appearances aren't everything.

Betty Waters/Staff Manipulating their robot through a simulated cave are the prize-winning members of the Brownsboro Intermediate School robotics team.