Life
Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save
Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is
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Environment
Robotic hand to feel its way to deep-sea discoveries
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Rubbery robot battles flames, snow and gets run over
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Space
‘Soccer-ball’ robots to patrol space for deadly junk
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Watch a swarm of 1000 mini-robots assemble into shapes
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Self-organising origami robot unfolds itself鈥� and walks
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Squidgy ‘click-e-bricks’ will let robots fix themselves
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Health
Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength
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US government chatbot gets you to tell all
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Health
Baxter the robot brings his gentle touch to novel jobs
A robot designed to work alongside humans in factories is finding a range of unusual alternative applications 鈥� from treating patients to farming in space
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Technology
World’s fastest humanoid robot learns sign language
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Meet Jibo, the cute social robot that knows the family
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Earth
Swimming, climbing robots explore the hostile Arctic
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Make robots useful by teaching them to talk like us
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