Strange days indeed...

NASA has chosen its next batch of proposals under its advanced concepts program, including the use of soft-robotic rovers for exploring gas-giant moons, and autonomous robots capable of crawling, hopping, and rolling around the surface of the Moon.

The Freightliner Inspiration is a big step forward on the path toward the day when our vehicles drive themselves.

In Terminator 2, T-1000 was that science fiction dream-come-nightmare: a shape-shifting robot made from liquid metal. Now, scientists have actually developed a self-powered liquid metal motor.

Cockroaches have often been selected for remote control cyborg treatment, but they're typically given instructions by electrically stimulating their antennae.

Tremble at the sight of the new and improved ATLAS. Redesigned for DARPA by Boston Dynamics, this robot is now stronger, more energy efficient, more dextrous, and quieter than its clunky predecessor.

‘Bionic Boots’ are high-tech footwear that can help you reach running speeds comparable to professional athletes like Usain Bolt.

To keep its customers on the road as much as possible, Tesla has built an international network of Supercharger stations, which can charge the battery in the Model S halfway in just 20 minutes.

Everybody had a favorite superhuman power as a kid – flying, invisibility, reading minds, character strength and agility. Well, here is a list of straight out of the comics. Check out these real superhuman powers technology will soon afforded us.

If you thought suitcases with wheels were handy, wait till you check out this new invention.

Thanks to a couple of Swedish entrepreneurs, it might soon be possible to get a clean shave without the little nicks and cuts.

Thanks to Japanese engineer Kuniako Saito’s new invention, walking could soon become a thing of the past. He’s created a portable transportation device called ‘WalkCar’, which he describes as the world’s first ‘car in a bag’.

Robots are poised to revolutionize surgery, as demonstrated by this astounding—and even touching—promotional video showcasing the da Vinci Surgical System as it sutures a damaged grape.
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The Magicband wields access to the park, replacing virtually every transaction you’d make inside.

Photographer Andrew Testa accepted the assignment right away. “As soon as I read ‘camel racing’ and ‘robots’ in the same sentence, I was in,” he says. As futuristic as this might sound, camel-racing goes back many generations.

Quick, what are the most important technologies in the world right now? If your first thought was something like the computer or cellphone, we get it.

A bike with wings and a personal submarine are some of the innovations featured in an image collection of 20th Century British life.

An unusual sight has hit the roads in Changsha City in China as a farmer-turned-inventor has created a motorised suitcase (Chinese man invents suitcase scooter to solve traveller's woes http://t.co/RR7aAyVPRs)...

Researchers at MIT's d'Arbeloff Laboratory have unveiled a pair of wearable robotic limbs that would make Dr. Octopus proud.
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We've seen Youtuber hinamitetu's robot gymnast successfully pull off a number of spectacular feats, including a perfect quadruple backflip and and Kovacs-Triple backflip-landing .