Robotic milking may take away the daily grind of dairy farming, but it does present other challenges, particularly in how cows are fed Lancashire farmer Chris Bargh believes every dairy herd in the UK ...

Engineers at Columbia University, in New York, have reached a pinnacle in robotics inventions, inventing a mechanical arm able to programme itself - even after it is malfunctioned. Professor Hod ...

Humanoid robots are expected to be deployed in factories and households - carrying out both basic and, potentially, advanced tasks. Bringing robots that look and move like humans to households and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In an Indian town, workers fold towels while wearing cameras, providing data to teach AI robots how to move and ...

A new state-of-the-art surgical robot at a Welsh hospital is expected to significantly reduce waiting times for prostate cancer patients. Once the new kit is fully bedded in at Morriston Hospital in ...

Hidden away in a lab in north-west London three black metal robotic hands move eerily on an engineering work bench. No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and closing slowly, with ...

The film Robot and Frank imagined a near-future where robots could do almost everything humans could. The elderly title character was given a “robot butler” to help him continue living on his own. The ...

In a quiet aisle of a small supermarket in Tokyo, a robot dutifully goes about its work. Reaching down, it grabs yet another bottle of a flavoured drink that humans like, lifts it and places it on the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Crouched around a whirring machine on the upper floor of Zongwei’s factory in Suzhou, a group of engineers puts ...