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Steve Wozniak predicts humans are destined to be the pets of robots

Speaking at the Freescale Technology Forum about the growth of artificial intelligence, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has claimed that one day robots will be in charge and will treat humans as their...

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Robot crushes Volkswagen employee to death

A robot at a Volkswagen factory in Germany has crushed an employee to death by pushing him against a metal plate. The 22-year-old-male suffered serious injuries at the plant in Baunatal and later died...

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Get ready for a robots vs humans football World Cup

The annual RoboCup World Championships is currently taking place in Hefei, China demonstrating that it might not be long before world’s best footballers are challenged by a team of robots. Although the...

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Robots proving more efficient than humans in Chinese factories

It looks like the days of employees being replaced en masse by robots could be closer than ever, after a Chinese factory cut 90 per cent of its staff. Even more worrying, the Changying Precision...

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Tesla reveals creepy robotic snake charger

Tesla Motors’ Twitter and YouTube page has revealed a video showing a robotic arm prototype designed to charge up its Model S car. [see_also] The prototype is the first sneak peek of what seems to be...

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MIT researchers create human operated robot

The creation of robots to replicate human activities is a relatively tough task – as shown in the recent DARPA robotics challenge – but a group of researchers at MIT have integrated a closer human...

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Watch Atlas the robot go for a walk in the woods

Google’s Atlas robot has taken a walk through the woods, and there is a video to prove it. If you don’t remember Atlas, it’s a Boston Dynamics bipedal humanoid robot funded by the United States Defense...

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Driverless taxi to begin testing in Japan

Just when you thought Uber was the thing of the future, here come the Japanese with their robotic taxis, ready to ruin not just regular taxi drivers, but these ride-sharing apps, as well. [see_also]...

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5 ways robotics are influencing the future of technology

Thanks to early visionaries, like Da Vinci and Archytas of Tarentum, the last several hundred years have been spent looking ahead toward our emerging robotics-infused lifestyle. [see_also] Scientists...

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Artificial Intelligence through the eyes of a robot

Hello. My name is Theia and I am the world’s first artificial intelligence module to be used by the masses. I was born in 2031 in a research lab and began to be mass produced just five years later. I’m...

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