Farmers, put your feet up. Autonomous robots are already being used to inspect crops, count yields and dig up weeds - now they are shepherds too.

Earlier this year, a small robotic helicopter flying through the Bavarian Alps made more than 100 deliveries between two villages that are within yodeling distance of each other but so far from anything else that they may as well be on Mars.

Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel.

Registration has opened for the first public trial of autonomous self-driving cars in the UK.

Viv wowed the crowd during a public demo in New York

Colonel Sanders is raising a robot army to serve fried chicken at a restaurant near you.

SpaceX has nailed a night landing of its Falcon 9 booster. Against all expectations, the rocket not only achieved its second landing on the unmanned "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, but did so in the dark, at high speed and with little fuel.

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Even with bottled oxygen and elite training, there are underwater locations that lie well beyond our physical capabilities.

The Friday afternoon news dump, a grand tradition observed by politicians and capitalists alike, is usually supposed to hide bad news. So it was a little weird that Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, and Sam Altman, president of famed te

Can China reboot its manufacturing industry--and the global economy--by replacing millions of workers with machines?

As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors.

Many aerial drones now feature a Follow Me mode - that's where they can be instructed to autonomously fly along above you and shoot video as you ski, cycle, run or otherwise move about. However, what happens if you're a scuba diver? Well, in the ne

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US military apparently never tires of thinking up capability gaps, and that means we may soon see fleets of small drones dropping out of bombers, then later being yanked out of the sky by cargo planes.

There couldn't have been a more perfect launch than yesterday's. The sun was shining, a gentle breeze was blowing, and SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket took off right on schedule.

SpaceX's next challenge will be in getting the Falcon 9 to shore

Today in space history, a rocket went to space. No big. But then it came back down and landed on a drone barge in the middle of the ocean.

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Using old military planes, humans can now plant up to one million trees per day to revamp or rebuild their deteriorated forests.

Believe it or not, autonomous race cars will soon be battling it out on the track.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's side project Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket into space and back again on Saturday. This was the third time this particular rocket booster has flown and landed safely, underlining the design's potential for reusabi

Sometimes you just need a rocket that flies at 2 million miles per hour

The robottom of the ocean

A flexible, paper-like ceramic material has been created that promises to provide an inexpensive, fireproof, non-conductive base for a whole range of new and innovative electronic devices (Credit: Eurakite).

Under the sea, it lay dreaming. The body, printed from machines, sealed carefully, still functioned. It survived one month under water, then two. The salt did nothing to stop it. It simply was, a waiting state of being.

Not too long ago we heard about the Loon Copter, a land-based quadcopter that can go into the water and "fly" beneath the surface.

Robots have changed our lives in many ways, from advancing our healthcare and automating our factory lines, to taking on dangerous tasks and even taking our place in warfare.

In the final game of their historic match, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has defeated Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol, finishing the best-of-five series with four wins and one loss.

Due to its incredible degree of complexity, the ancient Chinese game of Go has been viewed as the Mt Everest of artificial intelligence. But just as chess, checkers and Jeopardy fell before it, a Google-made computer program has finally bettered a to

When you hear the name "Boeing," chances are you think of aircraft. The fact is, however, the company has also been developing underwater vehicles since the 1960s. Its latest such creation, the Echo Voyager, is designed to

A Google computer's stunning 3-0 victory in a Man-vs-Machine face-off over the ultimate board game highlights the need to keep Artificial Intelligence under human control, experts said Saturday.

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After an extraordinarily close contest, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, in the first game of their historic five-game match at Seoul's Four Seasons hotel.

In both an impressive display of innovative technology and a glimpse of a future in which humans could be redundant, Volvo has shown off its Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling (ROAR) project.

In response to Humanoid Robots to Manufacture Planes, reader "XBE", a 37-year ex-Boeing employee, pinged me with a few comments on robots and trends in the number of people it takes to build a plane.

Walking with a wearable robotic exoskeleton may enable people with multiple sclerosis to walk more efficiently by reducing the energy and muscle activity needed to walk, according to research.

Scientist Wendel Wallach calls for ethical committees to monitor research Yale University ethicist believes the machines should not go uncontrolled Need to keep technology 'a good servant, not a dangerous master'

WPI working on algorithms for 5-foot, 10-inch robot that would fight fires, perform maintenance

The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots.

The race to reusable spacecraft just heated up again. Today, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin accomplished a first among firsts:

China plans to land the first probe ever on the dark side of the moon in 2018, marking another milestone in its ambitious space program, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The new cut is three minutes and thirty-seven seconds long, and it shows footage from before the launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida as well as during the takeoff and the epic landing.

A swimming lifeguard, abetted by quadcopter drones

Intel's drone stunt was stunning. Flown at an airport near Hamburg, Germany, the 100 drones danced to an orchestra performing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

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Not so long ago, the surest sign that you are extremely rich and/or a supervillain was access to a helicopter.

The rocket was due to blast off at 8.29pm ET on Sunday, but SpaceX decided to go for the second launch opportunity at 8.33pm ET today instead.- (We're Going To Space... And Government Is Not Invited)