Robots

And other stories from the stranger side of life

What can we learn from the skin of sidewinders? Why are farmers descending on Delhi? And would your cat eat lab-grown mouse protein?

Will offices give way to green spaces? Are robots on the verge of mastering empathy? And what’s gone wrong with the EU’s vaccine plan?

Military scientists hope cephalopods could also be the secret to building ‘self-fixing’ uniforms

Chinese ban on exotic creatures could see robot revolution

Hi-tech system is introduced a month after 24 workers are injured at one of the firm’s warehouses in the US

More than half of the automated workforce has been fired following complaints

From 8K smart TVs to robots – the highlights from this year’s tech show

Defence secretary warns of growing threat to UK posed by new technology

Motorised body armour ‘lets soldier fire a machine gun one-handed’

British man born without ‘manhood’ gets £50,000 penile implant

Creators say remote-controlled bollards can move off motorways in less than a minute

The so-called Norman algorithm has a dark outlook on life thanks to Reddit

Tiny bug-like droid could be used to help rescue people in disaster zones

Loathe building flat-pack furniture? Androids are here to help

Boston Dynamics’ updated SpotMini is smarter than ever

Study reveals which UK constituencies have most at-risk jobs

Experts at UCL say free services ‘more effective and politically attainable’ that redistributive payments

Economic gains from technological revolution could help tackle the challenge of an ageing population

Researchers close project after machines develop own way of communicating unintelligible to humans

Support pours in for a Washington-based security droid that drowned itself

Paedophiles could exploit robotic 'dolls', professor warns

What if people vote to end democracy? Could you love a robot? Who won the war on Easter?

From Rodrigo Duterte's China visit to Tracy Brabin's by-election win, these are the images of the last seven days

Artificial intelligence is the future, says parliamentary committee, but we are still a long way from Star Wars

Japanese engineers work to help suicidal bot blogger - and other tall tales

Aircraft becomes entangled in animal's horns before catching fire - and other tall tales

Expert warns droids could prompt 'sharp rise' in terror attacks

Could the rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence put skilled jobs in jeopardy?

US defence researchers are playing jazz to an AI project in the hope that it will learn how to improvise

New discovery could be a 'valuable tool' for healthcare as well as the 'emerging world of soft robotics'

'People don't respect the traffic police,' said one Congolese taxi driver. 'We should respect the robot'

Paramedics called to rescue woman whose hair was eaten by household gadget as she slept