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Robot, heal thyself.

Humanoid robots could also take robotics back to the factory floor in the 21st century. Theres a very pragmatic engineering reason to build humanoid robots, and thats because most of our environment h

Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.

Has a war between humans and machines already begun? A Swedish factory worker tried to fight back against a robot bearing large mechanical arms, when it attacked him unexpectantly.

The perennial kids’ favourite evolves into an exciting gateway to advanced engineering

Theres another, equally important, purpose to making humanoids such as Cog human: interaction with other human beings. For human/robot interaction, its good to have something that looks vaguely human

With a diameter of just one millimeter, a tiny robot has been unveiled that will crawl through the body to diagnose artery blockage

A robotic camera snake that mimics the actions of the actual reptile has been developed by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for surveillance use on the battlefield

If I'd seen one of these when I was an 8 year old, I would have gone on a hunger-strike until my parents bought me one.

It really must be the future if we have robot pets.

World robot Olympics start today.

Child-robot with Biometric Body has 200 optical, auditory and tactile sensors.

Humanoid robots arent a new concept. Perhaps the first appearance of a humanoid robot was Elektro, who appeared at the 1939 World Trade Fair in New York. Elektro danced, counted to ten, smoked and rav

TU Delft researcher hails 'breakthrough' device.

RedOwl system traces shots to their source.

Arctic Monkeys flashback to 1984.

Isaac Asimov would approve.

Robots defer to humans.