Robotics Stories for 2016

Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China 71
Mining Companies Are Using Autonomous Trucks, Drills and Trains To Boost Efficiency, Reduce Employees 94
Avatar-Style Manned Robot Takes First Steps In South Korea 42
Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming 366
Stanford Built a Humanoid Submarine Robot To Explore a 17th-Century Shipwreck 47
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers 414
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft 38
Scientists Develop Robotic Hand For People With Quadriplegia 22
Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant 541
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways 178
Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? 278
Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot 139
Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers 540
Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second 54
Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income 426
Scientists Develop Magnetic Ink That Can Self-Heal Gadgets When They Break 52
China's New Policing Computer Is Frontend Cattle Prod, Backend Supercomputer 69
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years 231
Harvard Scientists Invent Cigarette-Smoking Robot For Better Lung Disease Research 46
US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns 163
US Army 'Will Have More Robot Soldiers Than Humans' By 2025, Says Former British Spy 114
Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? 917
Proud Cyborg Athletes Compete In The World's First Cybathlon 19
Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul 145
Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm After it Failed the 'Toothbrush Test' 97
Google Releases Open Source 'Cartographer' 26
Toyota's Kirobo Mini Companion Robot To Sell For $400 62
'Transformer' BMW Turns Into A Giant Robot 45
UK Standards Body Issues Official Guidance On Robot Ethics 68
Robot Handcuffed and Arrested At Moscow Rally 46
Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff 129
Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report 400
Alphabet Partners With Chipotle To Deliver Burritos Using Drones 105
An Algorithm May Soon Cover Your Local Sports Team 53
Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity 265
Recent College Grads Aim To Land A Robot On The Moon 59
Domino's Will Deliver Pizza By Drone and By Robot 77
Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds 323
'Octobot' Is The World's First Soft-Bodied Robot 44
Intel Demos A New Robotics Controller Running Ubuntu 21
'We're Just Rentals': Uber Drivers Ask Where They Fit In a Self-Driving Future 367
RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App 201
8 Paralyzed Patients Learn To Walk Again Using Virtual Reality 17
Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' 213
The Pill Robot Is Coming 34
Open Source Gardening Robot 'FarmBot' Raises $560,000 80
US Military Using $600K 'Drone Buggies' To Patrol Camps In Africa 60
Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment 191
China Wants To Be a Top 10 Nation For Automation By Putting More Robots In Its Factories 141
MIT's Ori Robotic Modular Furniture Is Designed To Make Small Places Feel More Roomy 68
BuzzFeed and Washington Post To Use Robots For RNC Coverage 80
Robotic Exoskeletons May Become Skintight Suits 33
How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle 237
Parents Upset After Their Boy Was 'Knocked Down and Run Over' By A Security Robot 255
Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce 474
Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing 983
Robot Stingray Is Powered By Rat Heart Cells 35
Entire Federal Government Exempt From Robocall Laws, FCC Rules 188
Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard 263
Rolling Drone Delivery Robots Have Arrived 65
Facebook Messenger Now Has 11,000 Bots 43
Satya Nadella Explores How Humans and AI Can Work Together To Solve Society's Greatest Challenges 120
Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again 89
Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' 208
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Is All Electric, Agile, and Has A Capable Face-Arm 36
Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan 262
Elon Musk's Open Source OpenAI: We're Working On a Robot For Your Household Chores 64
Twitch Brings CFAA and Trademark Claim Against Bot Operators 43
It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom 81
Walmart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart For Stores 117
Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code 210
Autonomous Robot Intentionally Hurts People To Make Them Bleed 186
Siemens Now Commands An Army Of Spider Robots 119
New Swiss Robot Assists Travelers with Luggage 40
Bill Gates: AI Is The 'Holy Grail' 260
Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song 72
ASUS Unveils $599 Home Robot 'Zenbo' 39
Ray Kurzeil's Google Team Is Building Intelligent Chatbots 98
Adidas To Sell Robot-Made Shoes In Germany 166
Researchers Teaching Robots To Feel and React To Pain 63
Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour 1023
Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots 415
Real-Life RoboCop Guards Shopping Centers In California 100
AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian 414
Humanoid 'Pepper' Robot Needs US Android Programmers 29
Google's Tensor Processing Unit Could Advance Moore's Law 7 Years Into The Future 86
Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art 71
Ingestible Medical Robots Could Remove Batteries From Stomachs 65
Professor Surprises Students With AI Teacher Assistant 85
Hyundai's New 'Wearable Robot' Gives You Super-Strength 21
Creators Of Siri Demo Their Next AI Assistant Viv, It's Far More Open Platform 53
Lego Robots Crack Gesture-Based Security 13
Robot Stitches Tissue By Itself Without A Real Doctor Pulling The Strings 53
Elon Musk Open Sources New 'AI Gym' 44
Robots Battle In 25th Annual FIRST Competition 26
Chinese Security Robot Draws Dalek, Terminator Comparisons 111
Zero Zero's Camera Drone Could Be A Robot Command Center In The Future 31
Drone Fire-Fighting Tested in Nebraska 38
MIT Reveals AI Platform Which Detects 85 Percent of Cyberattacks 44
Autonomous Robots Begin Testing For New Delivery Service 63
Sharp Unveils Cute Robot Phone At A Not-So-Cute $1,800 Price 21
DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic 192
New Bipedal Robot Demoed by Google X Company 42
IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions 168
Chat App Kik Beats Facebook To Launching a Bot Store 69
People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find 162
Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man 222
Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch 158
Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download 39
Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence At High-Flying 3D Robotics 19
How Uber Turned Carnegie Mellon Into a Minor Nursery For Its Research Division 51
Apple Unveils Liam, An iPhone Recycling Robot That Salvages Parts 70
Could You Fall In Love With This Robot? 127
Workers In China, India, USA Believe AI and Robots Will Replace Them 126
Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees 954
Facebook's Messenger Bot Store Could Be Most Important Launch Since App Store 60
Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up For Sale In Robotics Retreat 95
6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car 130
FDA Approves Indego Exoskeleton For Clinical And Personal Use 20
HPE's Haven OnDemand Offers 'Machine Learning As a Service' 13
Contradictory Understandings of "Robot" Sow Confusion In US Law 100
First Bionic Fingertip Implant Delivers Sensational Results 26
BMW Showcases Self-Driving Concept Car 99
Stretchy Squid-Inspired Skin Glows In Different Colors 26
Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons 82
People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong 172
Mercedes-Benz Swaps Robots For People On Assembly Lines 156
Linguistics Could Help Future Driverless Cars Cooperate Better 27
Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether 200
Robots Could Learn Human Values By Reading Stories, Research Suggests 85
A 19-Year-Old Made A Free Robot Lawyer That Has Appealed $3M In Parking Tickets 156
Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm 77
Cheap At $40,000: Phoenix Exoskeleton Gives Paraplegics Legs to Walk With 37
World's First Robotic Farm To Produce 11 Million Heads of Lettuce Per Year 161
Let's Tear Down a Kiva Bot! 22
High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor 138
To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot 100
A.I. Startups Building Bots For Businesses 25
The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV 77
Sensors Designed For Prosthetic Hands Could Lead To New Textile Standards 21