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Why people become strangely attached to their robot vacuum cleaners

Technology

Why people become strangely attached to their robot vacuum cleaners

Kate Darling researches human-robot interaction. She explains why we are prone to forming emotional connections with robots and what we can learn from our relationships with pets and other animals

Regulars

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Humans

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Culture

Robots and human diver

Technology

Small robots could help look after salmon without stressing them out

News

Robot plants made from origami mimic transpiration to track the sun

Technology

Robot with origami leaves can follow the sun like a real plant

News

A robot could improve how we treat obsessive compulsive disorder

Mind

Meet the compulsive robot who could help us treat OCD better

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French factory workers

Technology

Robots are taking manufacturing jobs but making firms more productive

News

Robots

Technology

Soft finger-like robots can sweat to cool down just like humans

News

PigeonBot

Technology

A robot equipped with real pigeon feathers flies like a living bird

News

Christos Bergeles

Video

The tiny micro-robot that could save eyesight and cure blindness

Video

robot bin

Technology

Turn any object into a robot using this program and a 3D printer

A computer program watches people perform a task – like opening and closing a window – then designs a machine that can be 3D printed to do the job itself

News

Technology

Robot debates humans about the dangers of artificial intelligence

News

Technology

Swarms of golf ball-sized robots could detect leaks in the sewers

News

Life

When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

Features

Technology

Trash-talking robot troll makes people worse at playing video games

News