SCI-FI fans will be in their element as one of Europe’s largest privately-owned collections of model robots, cyborgs and androids lands in the region. Robot – or to give it its full title, Robot: a ...

Robots designed for neurorehabilitation, specifically for supporting arm and leg movement and motor relearning, are increasingly being adopted for individuals with limited limb mobility due to illness ...

A South Korean robot’s “suicide” is being investigated by the Gumi City Council after the cyborg hurled itself down a two-meter, or six-and-a-half foot, flight of stairs on Wednesday. The now-defunct ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have managed to create a kind of cyborg, by integrating the ear of a locust into a robot. The robot was then able to respond to noises that the biological sensor ...

Pepper, the so-called "emotional robot" that made its debut in Japan almost two years ago, is preparing to come state-side. Phase one? Roll out a software development kit (SDK) on one of the most ...

While the most powerful robots are still learning to walk, millions of years of evolution has made animals masters of tricky terrain. To take advantage of this scientists are exploring ways to augment ...

Hirotaka Sato was in Tokyo when the earthquake struck in March 2011. The tremors destroyed tens of thousands of buildings and triggered a tsunami that battered Japan’s east coast, including the ...

Pepper the robot looks like a robot, thanks to an almost-anime design. What then, of Kodomoroid (above, center) and Otonaroid (right)? Both androids have found employment at Japan's National Museum of ...

Biology has given robot makers lots of good ideas about how to solve certain problems, like how to squeeze into tight spaces, how to conserve energy for flying, and how to move around without a ...

Motoko Kusanagi, better known as “the Major,” is the cyborg hero of the famous manga, anime, and soon-to-be live-action film, Ghost in the Shell. The title itself refers to the idea that the Major was ...