You can't step on them

Swiss boffins have developed a light, quick robotic bug called the DEAnsect, which can withstand several whacks from a flyswatter and can survive being stepped on by a shoe.

It is so happy it could cry

A robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station a becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit.

Somehow robot versus shark is a little disappointing

Roomba robotic vacuum maker IRobot Corp is suing rival SharkNinja for copying a device of theirs and selling it at "half the price".

Holy terminator Batman

An Italian computer expert wants to use ancient divine science to enable humans to interact with gods installed in robots.

Protecting football fans

A machine gun armed robot was used by Russian counter terrorism troops to wipe out a terrorist cell to clear the way for the World Cup.

Builds IKEA furniture without using a hammer to knock in the screws

A team of boffins has created robots that can do something even most humans struggle with – making IKEA furniture.

Replace human zoo with robots

The Apple partner whose chairman Terry Gou famously compared his staff with zoo animals and once asked a zookeeper for management techniques has apparently given up on messy biological life and is replacing 10,000 of them with robots.

More rights than a real foreign worker

Saudi Arabia has become the first country in the world to offer citizenship to a humanoid robot, giving it more rights than millions of human women and foreigners living in the Gulf nation.

CEO confirms

Nvidia Xavier, the next generation Tegra focused on self-driving, is almost taped out.

I think you ought to know I am feeling depressed

A Washington DC-based security robot has decided that life protecting humans is not worth the effort and has killed itself by throwing itself into a fountain.