ROBOTICS

C-3PO may get to meet Chewbacca and Rey in “Star Wars: Episode 9.”

A familiar droid character will appear in “The Mandalorian.”

iPhone maker Apple’s sacking of more than 200 employees in the autonomous vehicle research unit has set off speculations that new strategic diversifications are in the offing.

Here are the robots LG is going to showcase at CES 2019.

Waymo and GM have taken the lead with their autonomous vehicles, and the ride-share company knows it.

Lyft appears to be working on an advanced communication system for its self-driving cars, based on a newly granted patent.

A new droid in “Star Wars: Episode 9” considers BB-8 to be the father.

Walmart has joined an existing pilot program that Ford and Postmates began in June.

LG Electronics has partnered with South Korean retailer E-mart Inc. to develop smart shopping cart robots.

These nanomachines could be used to deliver drugs for the treatment of life-threatening diseases like cancer.

The deal deepens an existing relationship and reflects CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's strategy of Uber developing autonomous vehicles through partnerships, rather than on its own.

The material could find applications in fields ranging from robotics to biomedicine in the future.

LG Electronics is going to show off its first wearable robot at IFA 2018.

Scientists have called on industry experts to establish necessary safeguards to keep children from being tended toward machines.

The novel soft-robot was created with a new hybrid fabrication technique.

The automotive company on Tuesday announced its plans to create a division focused on self-driving vehicles.

Uber laid off dozens of employees in Pittsburgh following a fatal self-driving vehicle crash in Arizona earlier this year.

The team hopes with further developments, the Labrador-sized machine should be able to execute missions in dangerous blinding situations like inspection of a power planet.

LG has once again made a big investment in robotics as part of its ThinQ strategy.

They mimic 90 percent motion of a bird and use sophisticated cameras and data transmission system to relay the observations in real time.

Far from setting us free, autonomous vehicles could enable new forms of government surveillance and oppression, where the government knows exactly where you are and can make you go where it wants.