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Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

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Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have ...

Hickey is a retired massage therapist and he’s trying Aescape, an AI- powered robot massager, for the first time. “It was ...

Researchers have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile and ...

In science fiction, robots can be neurotic. Think "Star Wars" and C-3PO. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE") ANTHONY DANIELS: (As C-3PO) What are we going to do? We'll be sent to ...

From "flying cars" to robots and self-driving buses, here are some of the innovations spotted at this week's Munich auto fair ...