Not all of the military's robot research goes into creating unfeeling killing machines. Some of them are here to heal, like the Navy's plan to create a medical robot to treat troops carried by drones.

Studies by North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looking at the potential job losses from automation were the inspiration behind our documentary “Connecting the ...

Don’t even think about calling it the da Vinci robot anymore. The da Vinci Surgical System robot that assists doctors doing certain surgeries at Saratoga Hospital will now be called “Doc Bot.” ...

Paging Dr. 3PO. One day soon robots could performing routine procedures in the OR. Bioengineers at Duke University announced yesterday that they’ve created a robot that can “locate a man-made, or ...

Bots High is a film that proudly declares its geekiness, which is a promising sign for a documentary that follows three groups of high school robotics students as they develop and (literally) battle ...

* Photo: Sian Kennedy * Nobody wants to have surgery on a battlefield; the idea of having it performed by a robot spider probably doesn't make it sound any less harrowing. But as far as Peter ...

We've been talking to robots for a while now. In the decade or so since Siri and her compatriots first appeared, we've all gotten pretty used to having conversations with computers in various forms.