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Can humans learn to trust robots ?
3-6-2013 |
34
A new robot called 'Roboy' is helping to highlight the psychological challenges in robot design.
Will robots steal all our jobs ?
2-6-2013 | 50
As robots become increasingly sophisticated, concerns have been raised over future job availability.
Should 'killer robots' be banned ?
11-22-2012 | 46
A human rights organisation has called for the complete ban of autonomous robotic weapon platforms.
Are robots becoming more like us ?
8-22-2012 | 21
How long will it be before robots and computers become capable of thinking like a human being ?
Asteroid mining plans emerge
4-25-2012 | 14
A group of entrepreneurs are planning to use robots to mine precious materials from nearby asteroids.
Mammoths and robots in zoos of the future
2-20-2012 | 16
In 50 years zoos may have robotic tigers and cloned extinct species such as woolly mammoths.
Robot dog prepares for combat
VIDEO 10-5-2011 | 32
Boston Dynamics has developed one of the most sophisticated quadrupedal robots ever built.
Two robots converse about God
9-10-2011 | 25
PhD students set up a conversation between two computer bots to see what would happen.
Human-like robots continue to repulse us
5-8-2011 | 19
The closer to human a robot appears to be the more likely it is for people to find it repulsive.
Flying robots to replace builders?
VIDEO 1-25-2011 | 14
University researchers have created networked robots to replace construction workers.
Robot George: revived after 45 years
11-23-2010 | 6
One of the first ever humanoid robots has been revived after being stored in a garage for 45 years.
Japan plans robotic moon base by 2020
5-29-2010 | 14
Japan's space agency has unveiled plans to put a base on the moon by 2020 built and populated by robots.
Robots could attack humans accidentally
5-9-2010 | 32
Scientists have warned that domestic household robots of the future could pose a threat to humans.
Robots with skin enter our touchy-feely world
4-22-2010 | 9
A new type of synthetic skin for robots has been developed by the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.
Inventor spends Christmas with 'fembot'
12-27-2009 | 40
An inventor who has spent his life building robots has created a sophisticated £30,000 female android with which he's s...
Could a robot really love a human?
11-19-2009 | 41
As an age where the idea of human-like robots is slowly but surely moving from science fiction to science fact society w...
Small robots could prepare Moon for landings
2-26-2009 | 1
Small robots could be sent to the Moon in advance of a manned mission to prepare a safe landing site for the astronauts,...
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