It’s tough to talk about sci-fi androids without starting here. Robby the Robot (from “Forbidden Planet,” 1956) and Gort (from “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” 1951) kind of set the standard for all ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

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Will autonomous androids built by Elon Musk take over Mars, like he’s promised? Not according to a leading robotics expert. In an interview with Forbes, Christian Hubicki, head of the Optimal Robotics ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

How advanced are today’s robots? What can they do now? And what’s likely in the coming years? Conor McGinn, CEO at Akara Robotics and professor of Robotics at Trinity College Dublin, joins Adrian on ...

Pepper, the humanoid robot, was born in 2014. It enjoyed a brief wave of hype, including a visit to the Financial Times to meet the editor. “This is a robot that behaves autonomously, powered by love, ...

Yesterday, an 8-inch toy robot stuck to a pillar near Coors Field triggered hours of havoc downtown, culminating in the Denver bomb squad detonating the innocuous figurine in a hullabaloo of wondrous ...

Sitting next to a rather sceptical man at the SXSW Interactive Extensions of Humanity event hosted at Japan House in downtown Austin, I knew he wasn't impressed by the robotics engineering, artificial ...

Perhaps one day, androids will create their own Games, designed by AI for AI. Humans may also evolve through biotechnology, and the two could even compete together. For now, the Olympics remain a ...