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Well, he certainly took his time. After all, Damon Albarn's been nothing short of prolific during his post-Blur period, delivering cartoon hip-hop with the Gorillaz, releasing four soundtracks of varying quality , forming superior supergroup The Good, the Bad and the Queen, and working on so many guest appearances and world music projects it's a ... (more)

The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 4.16 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,875.39. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 12.72 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,501.65 and the Nasdaq composite fell 34.49 points, or 0.8 percent, to 4,126.97.

New research provides some of the groundwork necessary to one day develop mini-robots that could perform delicate tasks inside your body, including assembling medical devices within your bloodstream.

A team of scientists at SRI international are creating real-life replicators from Star Gate SG1 - micro-robots capable of smart manufacturing.

THE West has always been a little squeamish about the idea of arming robots. Despite decades of development, no systems have ever been deployed and a vocal human rights campaign means it's unlikely to happen in the near future.

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is briefed on the ATLAS ROBOT which is one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built at the Pentagon by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency personnel demonstrating five technologies under development.

Many states and jurisdictions are rushing to write laws and regulations governing the testing and deployment of robocars.

My father is a mechanic in a factory he's worked in for more than 30 years. He's retiring next year, and one of the last projects he worked on was assembling the robots that will soon replace the hundreds of employees who work on the factory's packaging line.

An artistic rendering of a proposed robot to help keep schools safe. The concept comes from Clemson's Human-Centered Computing Division.

An artistic rendering of a proposed robot to help keep schools safe. The concept comes from Clemson's Human-Centered Computing Division.

Intuitive Surgical Inc on Tuesday lowered its forecast for procedure growth for its da Vinci surgical robots, citing a slowdown in U.S. gynecology procedures.

It's a familiar trope in science fiction: In enemy territory, activate your cloaking device.

A mission off the coast of South Devon, England has surveyed two U.S. Landing Ship Tanks that were torpedoed and sunk during the D-Day rehearsal Exercise Tiger on April 28, 1944.

The Crystal Forming Robots are little autonomous robots that are placed on an overhead projector.

As we reported earlier , a Silicon Valley company called Knightscope has developed a prototype robot that has all the capabilities that Hollywood has projected to be available by 2050.

NASA and Google will send floating robots equipped with 3-D mapping technology into orbit this summer, enabling them to navigate autonomously for the first time Since last summer, the two organizations have been cooperating on equipping NASA's SPHERE satellites with 3-D mapping technology to allow the floating robots to move around more freely.

Good news ahead for tech and science innovators: American's are overwhelmingly optimistic about future tech, according to a new study.

We recently got a Roomba. I wouldn't call it a smart. I can vaccum and sweep faster and more thoroughly than the little rolling disk.

Many Americans think the next 50 years will bring custom-ordered, made-to-order organ generation, teleportation and robots that will take care of the elderly and sick.

John Danaher, a Keele University law school lecturer with an interest in the ways human life may be enhanced by robots and the ethics problems that stem from that, published a paper that examines whether sex work might one day be dominated by robots rather than human sex workers.