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Robot can beat you at table football

And you thought you were a table football star?

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Really useful robots coming to a home or factory near you

Robotics technology is getting faster, smarter and more talkative, but just how useful can robots be?

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NASA prepares humanoid robots for trip to Mars

Humanoid Robots to pioneer Mars colonisation?

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Takeaway: monitoring sea pollution

This robot boat is not a toy… Developed by scientists, it monitors sea pollution.

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Dealing with danger: busy geniuses and watchful robots

In this edition of Futuris, we look at wasps, hawks and donkeys – not animals but special robots which can help save people in danger in the Alps.

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Takeaway: watchful robots

Obedient wasps, somehow stubborn donkeys, watchfull hawks, surrounded by Alpine peaks… In fact, they are robots developed in the framework of the

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Forklifts of the future: Sensors & the Factory

At a warehouse in Bilbao, in northern Spain, a strange robotic ballet is underway.

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Do you know: can sensors produce soda?

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Technological change a nettle that must be grasped says expert

“Do the digital revolution in business, technological advances and the increasing use of robots destroy more jobs than they create?” asks Franck in

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Robotics a walk in the park with latest advances on display

Boston Dynamics , one of Google’s parent company Alphabet’s hi-tech arms, has released video of its latest baby, the Atlas robot. In the video the

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Welcome to Japan's robot hotel

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Movers, not shakers: cable-driven robots may lift European heavy industry

At a research facility near Montpellier in southern France, a mock-up of a heavy airplane wing is carefully manouevred across a test centre by

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Do you know: what's a cable robot?

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Root cause: making crop plants better at sourcing water and nutrients

Increasing a plant’s ability to locate and absorb water and nutrients through its roots could potentially lead to bigger and better crop yields. That

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The walking robot set to help elderly people live an autonomous life

How can we help elderly people find their way around places which are new and completely unknown to them? At the Science Museum in Trento, northern

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Do you know: what's a robotic walker?

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Kirobo, a robot companion

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Spot, the latest robot dog from Boston Dynamics

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Rise of the machines

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Do you know: what is a soft robot?