A tiny delivery robot took a passerby by surprise by ‘politely thanking’ him for his help after it got stuck on an icy pavement. This week a passerby spotted a Starship food-delivery robot struggling to find a way up the large and icy curb in Cambridge. Graham Smith from Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, immediately came to the bot’s aid in Chequers Close on Tuesday. He said: ‘I... 

This has to be one of the funniest internet clips ever. A woman caught her boyfriend cheating with another woman, they caught them dancing together and all but they didn’t know that so when she stormed in the door, the mistress froze over and pretended she’s a robotized silicone sex doll, the problem is that they didn’t know the girlfriend saw them dancing and that there are no such... 

No doggy-doo, vet visits or bones – now everyone can buy a robot canine online and enjoy spending time with their new four-legged friend, feeding it only with electricity. The following Chiense robot is a copy of Boston Dynamics Big Dog and Spot. Laikago – named after Laika, a Soviet dog who was the first living creature to orbit the Earth – weighs 22kg, a bit less than a common Labrador. It’s... 

Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The lucky machine is Sophia the Humanoid, who was designed to look like Audrey Hepburn. News of Sophia’s citizenship was announced at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. This comes shortly after Sophia’s UN speech which we written about yesterday. “I am very honored and proud for... 

US company Realbotix which is a subsidiary of RealDoll has just released a realistic sex robot that moves, talks and even does auto-updates to its AI software as long as it has an internet connection. The AI is also able to learn information that it does not understand or have in its database. So its a learning AI… interesting…. Even though the the product is still primitive and more... 

NASA’s Robonauts are being put to the test in Mars-like obstacle courses in order to pave the way for future humanoid space exploration and help bridge the expansive gap between Earth and human colonization of the red planet. NASA built four six-foot, 290-pound, Iron man-like pieces of machinery named Valkyrie, at the cost of about $2 million each, and then outsourced three of them to universities... 

A machine on an assembly line grabbed a worker and thrust him against a metal slab, causing lethal injuries. The tragedy occurred at a plant belonging to German automaker Volkswagen (VW) in Baunatal, on Monday. A 21 year old man, who is not an employee of the plant, was assembling the robot for a new motor production line, according to the Local.de. His Meissen-based company had built the machine... 

The team from the University of California, Berkeley based the robot (bottom) on the humble cockroach (top). It will send a chill down the spine of anyone who has watched a cockroach escape into a seemingly impossibly small gap. Researchers have created a robot that can use its body shape to move through a densely cluttered environment. The team from the University of California, Berkeley based the... 

British scientists have invented a robot that cooks, working in a ‘smart kitchen,’ capable of mimicking Michelin-starred chefs to prepare food from a menu of over 2,000 dishes. A team of scientists from London have unveiled their invention of a robotic cook which they hope will go on sale to consumers in 2017, able to recreate dishes prepared by top chefs in the comfort and convenience... 

A team of engineers from Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed an affordable self-assembling robot. The android is made of a sheet of composite paper, which has had different parts, including hinges, motors, batteries, and a microcontroller, installed upon it. Having been fitted with the batteries, the automaton starts to assume its designated form and launch into... 

A human-dependent android has been set on a hitchhiking trip across Canada in search for an answer to an uncanny query. Put together from household items, “hitchbot” started its journey on July 27 in Canada’s Atlantic port city of Halifax on a mission designed by McMaster University experts. The project aims to see if robots can trust humans, “hitchbot” needing to look to humans to help... 

Korean developers of a bipedal robot allege it to be capable of outrunning the world’s 100-meter sprint record-toter. The minds behind Raptor, as the automaton has been christened, at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) say it outperforms Usain Bolt by some two seconds. Bolt’s intact record stands at 9.58 seconds. The machine has been fitted with a tail, which restores... 

Now that the mystery surrounding the elusive Google barges in the San Francisco Bay reported last month has been brought to light, the Silicon Valley giant is announcing another new endeavor: robots. Yes, robots. Speaking to the New York Times for an article published this week, Google exec and former Android CEO Andy Rubin revealed that the search engine company’s next big project is predictably... 

Russia has presented a new humanlike robot, which may be delivered to the International Space Station to perform 90 percent of risky operations in open space instead of cosmonauts. The SAR- 401 prototype was revealed to journalists at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow Region’s Star City on Wednesday. The robot was developed in 2013 and is currently being tested terrestrially,... 

NASA scientists reported on Thursday that the robot Curiosity will study the recently discovered bright particles on the Martian surface after it was ruled out that they could be from any cables of the ship that carried the android. In October, it showed transmitted while collecting samples of Martian soil. Scientists at the U.S. space agency NASA (by acronym) announced that the robot Curiosity will...