LAS VEGAS -- Vernie considers me with his icy blue yes, an orange eyebrow slightly cocked. Then, suddenly, he races forward and asks me my name. I shout it into the nearby tablet and we commence ...

Although magnetically controlled soft robots have been around, this oozing version may invoke new feelings of terror, with AI-dystopian characteristics that would be a hallmark of any movie involving ...

“This is a video of a person-shaped robot liquifying to escape from a cage after which it is extracted and remolded back into its original shape.” Gif: Wang and Pan et al. (The Chinese University of ...

One of the great science-fiction movie villains was the T-1000 shape-shifting robot from Terminator 2. The robot’s ability to shift between solid and liquid form meant it could get past almost any ...

A robot to sort your plastic containers, clean your windows, and fetch you a drink may be on its way. It’s not a humanoid, but rather a little critter, built with soft artificial muscles powered by a ...

They're not quite the humanoid killers seen in the Terminator films, but these unsettling machines have got the internet up in arms. Scientists have created tiny machines that can eat, grow and even ...