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"Stray" and why we fancy being a cat

Yo ho, yo ho! A stray cat's life for me

Salon · Aug 6, 2022

Global consumer service robotics market to continue to grow through 2025, report says

The research firm estimated that the market for personal and education category robots would exceed $4.5 billion by 2025

The Hindu · Aug 3, 2022

A robot fools humans in a new twist on the Turing test

This time it's more about body language. In a game of Simon Says, the human was fooled by a robotic companion a room over.

Inverse · Jul 28, 2022

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‘Necrobotics’ research sees scientists turn dead spiders into robots

Arachnophobes steer clear – zombie spiders are now a thing.

Evening Standard · Jul 28, 2022

California's strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?

In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a pair of robots have been picking berries all summer.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 27, 2022

A robot breaks the finger of a 7-year-old: a lesson in the need for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence

Disturbing footage emerged this week of a chess-playing robot breaking the finger of a seven-year-old child during a tournament in Russia.

The Conversation · Jul 27, 2022

Seemingly benevolent chess robot snaps boy's finger during tournament

"This is, of course, bad," says the president of the Moscow Chess Federation.

Input · Jul 25, 2022

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Germany Wins Robot Soccer World Cup

This is the moment robots take part in a bizarre soccer tournament – and just like in real life the German side turns out to be the terminators.

Zenger · Jul 25, 2022

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the vast majority of domestic work.

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2022

Why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on.

The New Daily · Jul 24, 2022

Mastermind behind human touch robot skin awarded The Princess Royal Silver Medal

Dr Atif Syed is one of only five people in the country to be awarded the coveted medal

Birmingham Post · Jul 21, 2022

'Stray' review: The best cat game ever made and a serious 2022 GOTY contender

'Stray' sends you on an emotional journey to escape the clutches of a closed off city, with an adorable cat as the lead role. It's one of 2022's best games.

Inverse · Jul 19, 2022

Stray review – press paws for adorable life as a post-apocalypse pussycat

Pattering through a ruined city, being petted by robots and watched over by a friendly drone, cat lovers may regret finding the escape

The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2022

Boris Johnson and a robot from Abba? Someone put out an SOS…

The latest scandal involving the prime minister and a mysterious woman is beyond satire – well, almost

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2022

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Salon · Jul 16, 2022

Blade Runner's robot rebellion lesson

It's been 40 years since Ridley Scott's sci-fi flick warned us – not about the evils of technology – but humanity

Zenger · Jul 14, 2022

Space Robots: Independent Thinking Robots Will Explore Deep Space And Hazardous Environments

The Robotics and AI Collaboration (RAICo) has been established in Cumbria, in England's north, as a joint research program.

Inverse · Jul 14, 2022

This experimental robot replicates a distinctly human sense — embodiment

Using artificial intelligence, mechanical engineers teach a robot to learn about its body.

Wales Online · Jul 13, 2022

Medical breakthrough sees tiny robots created to treat life-threatening illnesses

'Neutrobots' can deliver drugs to precise locations in the body after being directed by laser beams

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Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 12, 2022

Chinese Scientists Develop Robot Fish that Gobble up Microplastics

Robot fish that "eat" microplastics may one day help to clean up the world's polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China. Soft to touch and just 1.3 centimeters (0.5 inch) in size, these robots already suck up microplastics in shallow water. The team…

Wales Online · Jul 10, 2022

Scientists discover the reason why babies kick in the womb

It could be key to treating illnesses

Axios · Jul 8, 2022

So, a robot walks into a nursing home...

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

The New Daily · Jul 6, 2022

Robots to conduct stocktakes at most Kmarts by Christmas

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

The Guardian - US · Jul 6, 2022

From Hitchhiker’s Paranoid Android to Wall-E: why are pop culture robots so sad?

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

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2022

Nasa considers sending swimming robots to habitable 'ocean worlds' of the Solar System

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 Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2022

I’m sure robots are very nice, but I don’t want them picking my fruit

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

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