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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.

I would suppose that Sony's most famous robot release would be their beloved Aibo , which happens to be a robotic pooch that was the bomb back in the day, although the $1,900 price tag back then would make any potential customer think more than just twice as to whether to splurge that kind of money on what is essentially an expensive toy.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

John Van de Vegte, right, Project manager robotics and automation with the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre in Vineland Station, along with Harvest Robotics test an early prototype of a mushroom harvester on March 17, 2014.

In mid-April 2014, Guangzhou government issued a document to foster robotic industry.

According to a new Pew research survey, Americans remain wary of technology that could power the future, including drones, robots and even wearable devices like Google Glass.

In episode #154 , Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company's work in gripping technology, modular robotics, dexterous manipulation, and this year's SCHUNK Expert Days , the subject of which was service robots.

Robots in the work force have created a new era of financial savings for corporate america at the expense of you and I. This is what some people are doing to fight back and provide for their families.