Helen “Highwater” Platt jokingly refers to herself as an “evil robot overlord”. But the 40-year-old graphic designer and multimedia artist, who was born in Ince, England, is not out to destroy the ...

In this paper appearing in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, scientist Steve Omohundro lays out the case that the autonomous robots of the future "are likely to behave ...

Filmgoers have long been captivated by stories about robots. We are fascinated by their utopian promise, their superhuman intelligence and, in the case of the cyborg, their often uncanny resemblance ...

A humanoid robot was filmed attacking its handler while trying to break free from restraints in a scene viewers have branded 'dystopian'. In CCTV footage from a factory in China, the robot, which is ...

The Truss Link could, in future, be used to help develop groundbreaking technologies spanning marine research to rescue services and extraterrestrial life. This robot is not the first transformer ...

Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human ...