ROBOTICS

The cyborg-like HAL robot has been approved for testing as a medical device for disabled people in Europe.

Robots of the future may have smart skin covering their metal bodies.

An unmanned drone has crashed near a Florida highway.

Atlas, a new humanoid robot from DARPA, looks ready to become self-aware and kill us all.

The organizers of RoboCup Soccer, a tournament of football-playing robots, believe they can beat human soccer players in a game by 2050.

Robotics played a key role in apprehending the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday.

A new semi-autonomous swimming robot can scout for marine biologists, oil companies or border-control agencies.

Most Americans don't think the government should use drones against its citizens in the U.S. or abroad -- even if they are suspected terrorists.

The new trend in machines of war is "smaller is better" -- and their designers draw more from the world of nature than "Transformers."

Researchers at the University of Arizona claim to have invented a pair of robotic legs that mimic the human gait better than any other artificial leg.

Partial paraplegics can control a robot using thought, according to a demonstration at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology on Tuesday.

Iran has recovered data from the unmanned American drone that crashed near the Afghan border last year, and is using the information to reverse-engineer its own spy plane, the Islamic Republic announced on Sunday.

Sex robots will be the wave of the future, according to two New Zealand researchers who say robot prostitutes will revolutionize the sex industry by 2050. But the future is already here with RoxxxyPillow - a discreet, new sex robot that you don't need deep pockets to own.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced a five-year research initiative that will eventually enable people to design personalized robots, then have those robots built using three-dimensional printers.

Very little is known about the oceans. Researchers are trying to change that through the use of underwater robots.

Scientists in the U.S. have invented a robotic underwater which is inspired by jellyfish. The robot powers itself with sea water.

NASA's Robonaut did some handshaking at the International Space Station.

Welcome to the world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and their dystopian implications.

A British woman, Claire Lomas, who was paralyzed in an accident nearly five years ago, is aiming to use a robotic exoskeleton to help her compete in the London marathon in April.

Las Vegas -- There are many weird yet pricey offerings at the 2012 International CES, but none more so than in the robot section of the consumer electronics show.

Scientists at the Intelligent Autonomous System Group of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed two robots which are capable of making and serving snacks, sandwiches, coffee and much more, it has been reported.