An American engineering firm called Boston Dynamics is best known for its pack-horse war robot, BigDog, a 110-kilogram, headless quadruped that looks and walks like a kind of angry deer. This machine ...

An Australian team of scientists sent a free-floating robot to study a particular glacier in Antarctica. But it drifted away ...

When the robots decide to become your overlords, what defensive measures are you hoping to deploy? If your answer is “doors,” then you’re unfortunately fresh out of luck. Boston Dynamics, the ...

To count the number of robots who rebel against humanity in the annals of science fiction is to count the stars. But the inventive killing machines who inhabit the new, bestselling novel Robopocalypse ...

Humanoid robots have officially arrived... sort of. Companies are wheeling out sleek, expensive prototypes with human-like limbs, while cooing PR departments promise a future where your home is ...

The Pentagon is developing a new robot that can power itself with biomass--and, as Fox News gleefully conjectures, dead people. EATR: A Robot That’ll Forage Its Own Fuel The Pentagon is developing a ...

The famous Anglo-American writer who focuses on writing about the human race can envisage a world of robots and artificial intelligence in which people are rendered virtually redundant. Award-winning ...

Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center ...