Scientists have unveiled what they claim is the first newsreading android - with a sense of humour to match her language skills. The adolescent-looking "Kodomoroid" - an amalgamation of the Japanese ...

A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from a box of vegetables. The victim, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the machine's ...

In a world designed for humans, robots that look and behave like us could have advantages over their wheeled counterparts. Now engineers from Italy have developed a humanoid robot that they say can ...

Be afraid, be very afraid – the dystopian future of genetically-engineered robots featured in 1982 Harrison Ford film Blade Runner is coming towards us now. A new exhibition entitled "Android: What is ...