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 ...

Many envision a future of cyborgs – humans that have been fitted with technology to become part man, part machine. However, before then there will be biohybrid robots which are robots which take on ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article appeared in Discover’s annual state of science issue as “Meet the Xenobots.” Support our science journalism by becoming a subscriber. The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, typically ...

An investigation into the robots of tomorrow. The programme looks at the work of the robots that are designed to work with people rather than as precision engineers, thus requiring some personality.

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 ...