When the robot vacuum cleaner was first invented in the 1980s, it was more a toy than a genuine household appliance. With large flashing red eyes and arms, carrying a dainty dustpan and brush ...

Atherton, California-based Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones.

To help do all these jobs, the robot needs a list of instructions called ... which show which direction it can move. The computer inside the Bitesize Bot only understands directions from the ...

A photographer catches a glimpse of the future as he visits some of the world’s leading robot labs Photographs by Max Aguilera-Hellweg Those lifelike robots you see on TV? They might not be ...