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It could be key to treating illnesses

Robots can entertain the elderly — and remind them to take their medicine.

Robots will soon be roaming store aisles across the country, with Kmart enlisting technology to keep an eye on product stock levels.

‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way

Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells of our Solar System’s many “ocean worlds”. But don’t imagine metal humanoids swimming frog-like underwater. They will probably…

The more we automate our farms, the less we understand about our food. Let’s not get too hands-off

Manchester University experts are designing AI-powered robots to work in some of the most hazardous places on Earth and outer space.

It can never be an alternative to compassionate policing based on trust between the police and citizens

If robots are to work with humans safely, they need to be able to feel us — literally. Engineers are getting close to creating robots with skin that can sense touch, heat, pressure, light, and more.

The campaign is called Nothing Can Do What A Soldier Can Do.

Social web pioneer Joshua Schachter's perfectly imperfect @robotsdraw account has gone viral in recent weeks.