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A humanoid robot walks alongside uniformed police officers during what appeared to be a public patrol in China.

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McLain seems to have come away with the impression that makers of robots are worried they’ve oversold a technology that, well ...

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The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

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Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get ...

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A tear in an ultra-fine blood vessel, just 100 microns wide — one tenth of a millimetre — must be meticulously repaired to restore blood flow to transplanted tissue taken from another part of the body ...