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Last week brought a bloodbath of layoffs at some of the major corporations most poised to replace human beings who once ...

Despite all of his Hollywood success, the star of ‘Chad Powers’ and ‘The Running Man’ has stayed true to his school, his ...

Italian carmaker Lamborghini presented for the first time at a Comics & Games show half a dozen robots made from automotive waste.

Lest you think I’m some sort of unreconstructed Luddite, let me hike up my pants, check my Social Security benefits and ...

SIX sex dolls are pictured in a garage lined up next to a motorcycle – varying in hair colour, height and clothes. The person ...

When robotics firm Unitree made its G1 humanoid robot available for sale last year, it probably didn’t imagine someone ...

Toyota and Lexus revealed some new concept designs at the Japan Mobility Show in October 2025, including houses and aircraft ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be fooled by certain image inputs. Called adversarial examples, they incorporate ...

Level-4 autonomous vehicles can handle driving demands independently. It was unclear whether Uber planned to have human ...

Defining the greatest sports cars ever made presents a deeper challenge, inviting a certain degree of madness. We think the ...

MagicBot, built by a Chinese startup called MagicLabs, pulled three adult humans on a cart weighing around 551 pounds (250 kg ...