A robot hand that has the lightness of touch to hold delicate objects and the strength to crush cans could one day be used as a prosthetic

Don’t worry, a robot takeover isn’t imminent just yet.

This season, more than 60 teams travel to Las Vegas for a chance to take home the top prize in the sport: The Giant Nut.

The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce -- and in a way not seen in plants and animals.

With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird.

The task of designing solutions for homebound populations is particularly acute in Japan, where over a quarter of its population is unable to work due to physical disabilities, mental illness, or old age

One flaw in the notion that robots will take over the world is that the world is full of doors. And doors are kryptonite to robots, said Ou Ma, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati. “Robots can do many things, but if you want one to open a door by itself and go through the doorway, that’s a tremendous challenge,” Ma said.

Companies in North America added a record number of robots in the first nine months of this year as they rushed to speed up assembly lines and struggled to add human workers.

The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering due to increasingly harsh herbicide use, according to Carbon Robotics founder Paul Mikesell.

They can make French fries, mix drinks and even clean toilets, and they never ask for a raise. But they also break down.

James Cameron’s “The Terminator” was a cinematic retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for the post-industrial era. Gone was the stitched-together, emotionally conflicted monster of the original novel: Cameron forged it a new body out of hyperalloy, and gave us an unstoppable, flesh-over-metal killing machine designed for a singular purpose: human genocide.

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The island of 5.5 million inhabitants has seen an arsenal of surveillance technology deployed on streets across the tightly-controlled city-state.

The New York Times report reveals how an elaborate Mossad operation harnessed the final days of the Trump administration to assassinate Fakhrizadeh using a remote-controlled machine gun

Throughout history, creative human engineers have taken inspiration from artifacts of the biological world. Leonardo da Vinci designed flying machines, submarines and tanks with birds, fish and tortoises in mind. Today, artificial neural nets, a computer architecture directly inspired by animal nervous systems, are the cutting edge of machine learning. But none of those applications get to the deep structure of biology—likely a beacon of future creativity.

Using a robot vacuum has always been a bit hazardous for pet owners. Leaving a robovac to do its thing in your absence can be a problem if your less-than-perfectly-trained dog or cat also does its thing while you’re out. A quick Google of “Roomba dog poop” gives you some idea of what the outcome can be, as unheeding robots with spinning brushes barrel into the mess and proceed to spread it liberally around the house.

In its collapsed form, this robot arm looks like a tiny concertina, an accordion-like musical instrument that can expand and fold into itself. Unlike a concertina, this arm cannot make melodies, but what it can do is unfurl and undulate in delicate—and potentially useful—ways.

There's no need to install a perimeter wire with the Navimow

Connecting the bionic limb directly connected to the brain allows for delivery of precise sensations tied to natural movements. Dreaming of a future where Luke Skywalker's replacement hand is more than a sci-fi fantasy, scientists have designed a "bionic arm" that enlists help from tiny robots to re-create the vital sensations forfeited when one loses an upper limb. The bots do that by safely vibrating muscles at the amputation site.

After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI, the company’s self-anointed Technoking, Elon Musk, capped the evening by bringing out a dancer in a spandex suit. Behold, said Musk: my Tesla Bot.