If you’re looking for a fun family project to round out summer vacation, consider picking up this gigantic Robot Building Kit. It’s designed for kids eight and up, although its 901-piece assembly will ...

With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

The walking, talking Optimus robots that stole the show during Elon Musk’s splashy “Cybercab” event in Hollywood last week were operated in part through remote control by humans, according to a report ...

They’ve come in countless forms over the past few decades, but it seems the public just never grows tired of remote-controlled robots. Regardless of age, they inspire a unique fascination and are just ...

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A robot, operated by health workers in Brisbane, is scanning patients' hearts more than 1,000 kilometres away in the Queensland outback. Sonographers sitting in a tiny room at the Royal Brisbane and ...

Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully controlled stage presentation. Last night, Tesla’s “We, Robot” event featured ...

(Representative image) Firefighting robots can spray water and foam mist up to 80m and are especially useful in complex fire situations. On Friday, Joseph Leslie & Co LLP and its partner Magirus ...