Ryan Howard, 34, has spent six years making a fully functioning replica of Johnny 5 (Picture: SWNS) A cult film fan has spent six years building a fully functioning robot from the film Short Circuit ...

MOVIE robot Johnny 5 is alive — and living in a granny annex. Fan Ryan Howard, 33, has spent £20,000 recreating the android from cult 1986 film Short Circuit. Now part of the family, the robot has ...

A replica of the robot from the Short Circuit films has gone trick or treating for Halloween - dressed as a ghost. Johnny 5 brought smiles to children's faces as it rolled from door to door in ...

A new open-source bipedal robot, dubbed MEVITA, has been designed by engineers at the JSK Robotics Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Interestingly, MEVITA aims to tackle the common issues ...

Building a robot is hard. Teaching a robot is even harder. But teaching a robot to do your teaching for you might just be within the realm of possibility. If you're building a robot to perform a ...

Rise V3 is a robot designed by Boston dymanics. The quadrupedal robot is designed to quickly run on the ground and climb poles such as telephone poles; the device uses tiny surgical needles to dig ...