April 18, 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral kept standing amid fire with giant robot ‘Colossus’ As flames swept through the 800-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, threatening priceless religious treasures and the entire structure's integrity, crucial help in battling the ferocious blaze came from an unlikely place.
April 15, 2019 Carol Roth: Robots are not people -- let’s hope it stays that way Would you be sad if your toaster caught on fire?
April 8, 2019 Can robots build a Moon base for astronauts? Japan hopes to find out. Japan's space agency wants to create a moon base with the help of robots that can work autonomously, with little human supervision.
April 4, 2019 NASA is sending 'robotic bees' to space NASA is sending two of its robotic "astrobees," a cube-shaped flying robot that will help take care of routine tasks and participate in experiments, to the International Space Station later this month.
April 3, 2019 Minnesota high school robotics team designs power wheelchair for 2-year-old whose family couldn't afford one A Minnesota high school robotics team constructed an electric wheelchair for a 2-year-old whose family couldn’t afford to purchase similar ones valued around $20,000.
March 26, 2019 Japan says it will not build 'killer robots' GENEVA (AP) — Japan's ambassador to the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament says his country has not developed fully autonomous weapons systems and has no plans to do so.
March 26, 2019 Scientists plead to stop creation of killer robots: We're at 'the brink of a new arms race' Dozens of scientists, health care professionals and academics have written a letter to the U.N. pleading to stop the use of autonomous killer robots, citing recent advances in artificial intelligence "have brought us to the brink of a new arms race in lethal autonomous weapons."
March 21, 2019 Shocking 'Terminator-like' liquid metal developed by scientists Researchers have created a "Terminator-like" liquid metal that has the ability to stretch horizontally and vertically, as well as changing shapes, according to a new study.
March 4, 2019 Pentagon approaches massive new AI, machine learning breakthrough The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is pursuing an unprecedented machine-learning “breakthrough” technology -- and pioneering a new cybersecurity method intended to thwart multiple attacks at one time and stop newer attacks less recognizable to existing defenses.
March 4, 2019 MIT's creepy 'Cheetah' robot can now do backflips If a robot that can run, jump and climb isn't your thing, maybe one that can do backflips is.