ROBOTICS

Consumers remain concerned about aspects of self-driving technology and still want the ability to manually control a self-driving vehicle.

Google is working on an adhesive coating for its self-driving cars to prevent pedestrians from bouncing off the autonomous vehicles if hit.

The startup received $3 million in funding prior to its recent public reveal.

Devices worth “hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars” were sold to various countries, a Chinese official told a state-run news outlet.

The Swedish carmaker, which wants to make its cars “death proof” by 2020, called the project “China’s most advanced autonomous driving experiment.”

Students from ETH Zurich are developing an exoskeleton for paraplegics that they say more accurately mimics natural knee gait meaning it won't struggle on uneven terrain. Matthew Stock reports.

A product and graphics designer in Hong Kong spent over $50,000 creating a life-sized humanoid robot to fulfill his childhood dream.

A Google self-driving car trying to merge mistakenly expected a bus to yield, causing a crash.

It’s the Chinese manufacturer’s latest product to be unveiled in the United States, and the first with help from Apple.

A Google self-driving car hit a public school bus on a Silicon Valley street during a test drive on Feb. 14, according to a report.

The chinese drone manufacturer will provide repair credits up to the value of the drone.

While experts believe Google will partner with an established carmaker, the advertised jobs provide a window into how much hardware the company may build.

In a major milestone for the development of autonomous vehicles in the U.S., a transport regulator said robots can meet the definition of drivers.

The Remote S Apple Watch app recently received an update that brings so-called summon support for Tesla cars to the wrist.

To test its autonomous vehicles in more extreme weather conditions Google will begin testing the cars near Seattle.

A recent study found 40 percent of young people globally said they thought a computer or robot could be doing their jobs within 10 years.

Xiaomi has planned to enter virtual reality and robotics business in this year.

During 14 months of testing for the self-driving vehicles, an immediate handover to a human driver was required 272 times, a report said.

Israel is the largest exporter of drones in the world. The one Germany is considering has a range of 4,600 miles.

Nvidia wants to supercharge the self-driving car phenomenon by launching a supercomputer designed specifically for the vehicles.

The deal represents the Detroit automaker’s largest investment in an outside company.