ROBOTS

Google reportedly paid upwards of $500 million for DeepMind, an AI outfit with no commercial products to its name. How will Google put it to use?

Google (GOOG) has announced its intention to build robots, in a moonshot project spearheaded by Android creator Andy Rubin.

Researchers in the UK have developed a way to turn human waste into energy to power a robotic “heart.”

A 32-year-old who lost his knee and lower leg in a motorcycle accident became the first person missing a lower leg to control a robot leg with nothing but his mind.

The world’s largest walking robot is a gigantic fire-breathing dragon named “Tradinno.”

This has been a great year for robotics, but not all robotics are equal.

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

Despite a big budget and plenty of robot action, "Pacific Rim" underperformed slightly at the box office, losing out to "Grown Ups 2" and "Despicable Me 2."

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

NASA's Curiosity was chosen to become an official LEGO product.

A new Cambridge University research center will focus on investigating potential threats to humanity, ranging from global warming to hostile robots.

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.

Sex robots may take over the world by 2050. If they do, all the credit goes to the first sex robot, Roxxxy, for paving the way for their dominance.

Are sex robots a threat to real prostitues? A pair of New Zealand researchers say yes, finding that robot prostitutes will revolutionize the sex tourism business by 2050.

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.

The futuristic warplanes and weapons, the Na'vis, the sentient extraterrestrial humanoids inhabiting the fictional moon Pandora in the movie 'Avatar's had to battle against, is set to become a reality, thanks to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which plans to make an army of 'Avatar'- style surrogate robots to reduce the dangers posed to military soldiers in the battlefield, featuring telepresence and remote operation of a ground system.

Robots, not jockeys ride camels now in the annual International Camel Race in Kuwait, and the tiny sentinels are powered by remote control as the camel owners race along side in their Jeeps. The annual race occurs outside Kuwait City in the tiny Persian Gulf nation, and organizers switched to robots in 2005 after it was found some of the owners were using children from overseas due to their smaller size.

Robotics researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed small flying machines called nano quadrotors capable of insect-like maneuverability in the air.

Besides smart TVs, waterproof gadgets, gaming, tablets and smartphones, robots have become a major draw at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. While pop sensation Justin Bieber showed off a dancing robot mRobot at CES on Wednesday, the latest version of Murata Electronics' ECO MURATA BOY, a bicycle riding robot, demonstrated its balancing skills.

Las Vegas -- Although it might not been much different from robots we've seen in the past, the dancing robot by the TP-LINK section stole the first day of the 2012 International CES.

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.