Jingdong, or JD.com, China’s second-biggest e-commerce company after Alibaba, sent robots to deliver items for the first time yesterday (June 18), on the last day of a two-week-long shopping bonanza that recorded sales of around $17.6 billion, according to a ...

In every sci-fi depiction of an eventual robot apocalypse, the mechanical monstrosities move with cold, calculated precision, dispatching or enslaving humanity with a complete lack of sympathy and no second guessing. But what if robots could actually worry? What if ...

Christened FEDOR – Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research – designers claim the futuristic sharpshooter would initially be deployed during search and rescue missions, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Star. “FEDOR was designed as an android able to replace humans ...

This robot was created by a 19-year-old university student Michael Reeves, according to The Verge. Reeves coded the software for the robot in C# using an off-the-shelf facial recognition database, and built the targeting apparatus from a webcam, a pair ...

Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move, Joinfo.com reports with reference to U.S. News. Toyota said it saw ...

31-year-old Zheng Jiajia married a robot he named “Yingying” in a traditional informal Chinese wedding ceremony, Joinfo.com reports with reference to South China Morning Post. A Chinese engineer has “married” a robot he created after failing to find a human ...

Jeff Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot on Sunday, March 19, at his company’s private Machine Learning, Home Automation, Robotics and Space Exploration (MARS) conference, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Live Science. Video of the bot, developed by ...

An ‘exam-taking robot’ developed by China’s Chengdu Zhun Xing Yun Xue Technology Co. was defeated by a group of high school students in Chengdu in a test-taking competition, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Huffington Post. The four-year old robot took ...

A 75-pound Gita prototype certainly made quite an impression on passersby as it rolled down New York’s busy Madison Avenue, according to USA Today. Several people stopped to gawk at Gita and snap pictures during a demonstration, and to ask: ...

Robots have begun to play an increasing role in life and death scenarios, from rescue missions to complex surgical procedures. But the question of trust has largely been a one-way street. Should we trust robots with our lives? According to ...

The physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, says a ‘world government’ could be our only hope, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Mail Online. He says our ‘logic and reason’ could be the ...

Scientists will eventually be creating part-human, part-robot test subjects. That’s what a pair of biomedical researchers at the University of Oxford are hoping to do, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Futurism. In a report published in Science Robotics, Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr ...

If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized wrenches, you’d probably pause and ask, “which one?” Robotics researchers from Brown University have now developed an algorithm that lets robots ask for clarification ...