Heavy metal music has done much good for the world, introducing us to the talents of Bruce Dickinson on vocals, Jeff Hanneman on guitar, and the sarto...

Are you rich, lonely and want a giant robot to hug? Then today is your lucky day. A nine foot tall humanoid robot built in 1957 is to be placed up ...

MIT has unveiled a beautiful, efficient and only mildly terrifying robotic cheetah. Like the version built by Boston Dynamics last year, the metal ...

In the future buildings may have unusual architects. Termites. Well, actually, robotic ants programmed to behave like termites, but who will ins...

Robots. Fighting. Lightsabers. While Google's keynote speech at the annual I/O developer's conference was a bit of a mixed bag - some cool news, bu...

If you fear that your bad breath or stinky feet could lead to rejection from fellow humans then fear no more. In the great Japanese tradition of us...

A campaign launched last month to pre-emptively ban killer robots was given a boost after a draft UN report called for measure to be taken before thei...

Yesterday we brought you the robotic bird so realistic it got attack by an actual hawk. Today we bring you something even cooler - and far, far sma...

Nasa has announced an amazing new autonomous, solar-powered rover to explore strange, icy landscapes in our Solar System. Well, on Earth actually. ...

Robot engineers have built a mechanical bird that is so realistic it got attacked by an actual hawk. The eight-year endeavour led by Satyandra Gupt...

Scientists have managed to bounce a laser off a Soviet Lunar rover which landed on the Moon more than 40 years ago. The Lunokhod 1 was the first re...

An enterprising fellow with a potentially relaxed attitude to the concept of ownership has built a robot that can steal from a vending machine. In ...

Tragically, recent events in Bangladesh have focused many minds on the need for more effective search and rescue tools. One new idea is to use an i...

A campaign has launched to stop the creation of killer robots before it's too late. The Campaign To Stop Killer Robots is calling for pre-emptive b...

A man from Winchester has built an utterly terrifying, massive, six-legged robotic walking machine. Mantis is said to be the biggest all-te...

Putting together flat-pack furniture. It shouldn't be difficult, but somehow we always end up bleeding, broken and surrounded by Allen keys. That ...

An American military contractor has demonstrated a humanoid robot in camouflage clothing which can run, jump and even sweat like a real human. And ...

Russia has announced it will launch a fleet of space robots to explore the Moon. Nasa's former space-race competitor (when it was still the Soviet ...

A 'remote presence' robot which allows you to attend meetings, chat with colleagues and sneak up on people unawares from thousands of miles away has b...

You know that annoying thing at popular coffee chains where they ask your name and then write it - usually misspelled - on the side of your mocha? ...

Not to be outdone by the moths, who can drive robots pretty well it turns out, the monkeys have gone one better. One has driven a robot... with his...

Not to be outdone by the moths, who can drive robots pretty well it turns out, the monkeys have gone one better. One has driven a robot... with his...

In what appears to be yet another blow in mankind's ongoing battle to remain relevant amid the encroaching sentient robotic tide, quadrocopters have b...

Powered exo-skeletons are just about on the cusp of being really useful - and genuinely everyday. And while the military has a role to play, many o...

Amputees may be able to truly 'feel' objects for the first time later this year, after a breakthrough innovation could allow bionic limbs to be wired ...