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By the end of the 21st century, will human beings be supreme beings of leisure? Or will we be irrelevant? That's the discussion people are having more and more lately.

Hitchhiking can be a dangerous way to travel, but one robot is using it to go cross country.

The US space agency's Opportunity rover has now clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, NASA has said.

His unusual interpretation of household pests has served him well. The incoming freshman at Fox Chapel Area High School built a flying robot inspired by the fruit fly's capacity to escape moving objects, which was selected last month by judges of the international Google Science Fair as one of 30 finalists in the Americas.

Technology may be so good one day that robots can beat humans at soccer. Whether you want to believe it or not, that's the goal of robotic researchers.

SIGGRAPH 2014 will showcase more than 40 contributor Dailies with presenters ranging from students to industry giants on Wednesday, 13 August at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Damon Albarn performed for a crowd that included robots at a show last week in Japan.

Visitors look at robot arms of Panasonic on display during the China International Robot Show 2013 in Shanghai, China, 2013.

Robot cars and military robots have more in common than you'd think. Some accidents with self-driving cars will result in fatalities, and this may be troubling in ways that human-caused fatalities are not.

A project to automate drilling and riveting on the Boeing 777 fuselage is just the beginning, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said last week during a conference call with investors.

As ennui sets in at the stock markets - less Volume, weaker breadth, summer vacations, even decades low viewership of CNBC , maybe traders are looking for a way to compete with the Flash Boys of expensive co-located AI computer-to-computer trading - maybe the answer is to use robots to trade! Dr. Tucker Balch will present on Machine Learning -- the ... (more)

In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby , the Supreme Court recognized that corporations are entitled to religious freedom under the First Amendment, much as actual people are.

The anthropomorphic robot named hitchBOT sits on the shoulder of Highway 102 to begin its 6000 kilometer cross country journey outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 27, 2014.

That's the plan for one Arizona entrepreneur, Tony Mulligan, who designed a remote-controlled buoy named Emily to help rescue swimmers in distress.

It didn't take long for a little robot attempting to hitchhike across the country relying on the kindness of strangers to get its first ride.

In episode #161 , Audrow Nash speaks with Russ Angold, co-founder and CTO of Ekso Bionics , about the wearable bionic suit, Ekso.

We were both new to our respective roles in academia. I'm about to see the new crop of your kind at Columbus State University next week, so I'd love to share three points of observation from Year One.

Matt Greenwood seemed to hold his breath as he stared at his robot rolling through a maze on the floor Tuesday night.

Legendary Pictures has a special treat for Pacific Rim fans visiting San Diego Comic-Con this weekend: the chance to pilot a Jaeger, one of the giant monster-punching robots from Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 action flick.

Visitors to St. Mary's Hospital on Friday afternoon were able to get up close and personal with da Vinci.