A robot attends the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon held in Beijing (Ng Han Guan/AP) In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a ...

Scientists are one step closer to creating cyborgs after fusing human tissue to a robot and making it walk. In what has been hailed as a ‘giant leap’ for cyborg robotics, researchers from the ...

Borrowing from nature, some machines now have arms that curl and grip like an octopus, others wriggle their way inside an aeroplane engine or forage underwater to create their own energy. This is ...

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 ...

Robots took part in a UN session examining how artificial intelligence can be beneficial for healthcare. At the "Robots that assist and care: developing socially intelligent robots for good" event as ...

In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital Beijing on Saturday. The bipedal robots of various ...

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