In some of science fiction's most influential stories, Isaac Asimov laid out three laws of robotics, the first of which was that "a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." He later added a zeroth law that said robots much als …

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It seems a bug or glitch caused a robotic anti-aircraft gun In South Africa to flip out and kill nine soldiers (and injure a further 14).

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Robots versus pirates—it's not as stupid, or unlikely, as it sounds. Piracy has exploded in the waters near Somalia, where this past week United States warships have fired on two pirate skiffs, and are currently in pursuit of a hijacked Japanese-owned vessel.

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In what seems like a story lifted out of a science fiction novel, the British government has released a speculative paper warning that robots may one day demand their emancipation from humans,

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THE Olympics have come to the Gold Coast – but you won't find any drug testing in this competition. The 8th International Robot Olympiad opened today at The Southport School, with more than 600 students from 15 countries expected to attend the two-day event.

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Rity is the ghost in the machine: an autonomous agent that can transfer itself into desktop computers, PDAs, servers and robotic avatars, and adapt and evolve like a genetic organism.

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A robot archaeologist is to be sent deep inside Egypt's largest pyramid in a bid to solve secrets revealed by a first foray more than four years ago, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said.

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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a robot is damaged or its environment changes unexpectedly, it can't adapt.

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Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.

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Law enforcement officials across the country have been using robots for some time now to scope out potential bomb threats, intervene in hostage crises, and make dozens of fresh donuts each day, but a new bot being developed for the Waukesha Police Department is the first one we'v …

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Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. It is equipped with two cameras with zooming capabilities one for day time and one for infrared night vision.

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An innovative rover robot designed to explore planets and moons is undergoing final assembly this week in a lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The robot may also be useful in hazardous environments on Earth, its creators say.

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A company in south China has developed the nation's first cooking robot, equipping it with the skills to cook thousands of traditional dishes, state media said.

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Copying the humble honeybee's foraging methods could give robots better 3D vision, researchers say. Robot explorers could identify points of interest by mimicking the way bees alert others of promising foraging spots.

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Did humanoid robots exist in the ancient Greece? Are the accounts of them purely fictional? Can they be the distant echoes of some events that took place at the dawn of modern humankind? We will not jump to conclusions.

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Carlos Owen is currently building an 18-foot tall "Bipedal Exo-Skeletal Robotic Vehicle" called NMX04-1A. He plans on having a fully-functional prototype ready by next summer

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Gallery of steam-powered robots

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Researchers in Japan have designed a robot with taste. The electromechanical "sommelier" developed at NEC System Technologies and Mie university is able to identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres.

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Sean Connery using a Jet Pack to escape from the bad guys in the 007 flick "Thunderball" was cool, after seeing something like that everyone of us must have thought if only....

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Remote-controlled mechanical creations belched flame, torched flammable sculptures and shot sparks high into the sky before some 2,000 spectators here late Friday night.

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It looks almost like any other shopping cart, except sensors allow it to follow the shopper around the supermarket and slow down when needed so items can be placed in it, and it never crashes into anyone's heels.

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The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But it wasn't the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.

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