The Internet loves a cat, that's for sure. And whilst Kinect hacks may be a bit old hat now, and the Wii is on its last legs; combine the three with some robot virtual reality action and you've got an internet hit on your hands.

That's what...

Remember the 1982 Sci-Fi hit Blade Runner? Remember how in the film it was getting harder and harder to tell the difference between what was an android and what wasn’t? Well judging by this video, those lines are already starting to blur and...

The "all-new" Asimo has been shown off,  equipped with what Honda describes as "autonomous behaviour control technology".

The new system allows Asimo to continue moving without input from a controller, whilst its new, slimmer body gives the...

Yes, we know it was all a marketing stunt. And yes, technically three Panasonic Evolta robots took on the Hawaii Triathlon - but that doesn't mean we haven't been worried sick about the little guy (or guys, rather) since we first brought you news of...

Boffins at Stanford University have posted a rather interesting video that shows off a flexible artificial skin, which makes use of nanotubes in order to deliver very accurate capacitive feedback whilst maintaining flexibility.

The skin consists...

Only in Japan. You turn up to an Intel keynote presentation expecting to hear the processor giant talking shop, perhaps showing off the odd device packing one of its chips. What you don't expect is to see a "first of its kind" robot system called HAL...

How far will Panasonic go to show off the power of its Evolta batteries? Just over 140 miles it seems.

That's the distance that the Evolta robot will have covered if it completes its latest "World Challenge" - the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

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Robosynthesis is a UK-based company offering a system of plug and play modular robotics. The system is based around core components designed to give you a scalable, flexible and fully customised robot at the end.

It’s a system that’s...

Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer who has, until recently, built a vast number of Apple's iPhone and iPad products, is to replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in the next 3 years.

Terry Gou, founder and chairman, announced that...

Keeping up Britain's brilliant footballing tradition, the Scottish robotic football team has been knocked out of the 2011 RoboCup.

The event sees teams from around the world pit their robotic inventions against each other in a round of the...

It was with some apprehension that we opened our doors to Neato XV-15. Inviting a robot into your house as a domestic servant shouldn’t be taken lightly. We’ve all seen what happens when robots go bad, become self aware and throw aside...

Need some new flatmates? Preferably ones who don't mind doing the shopping and then knocking up a fry-up on a Sunday morning?

Then look no further than Rosie and Jim. No, not the old ragdolls - these brilliant robots from the Intelligent Autonomous...

Those lazy army guys eh? Always nagging the airforce to lug their gear about town.To be fair they do have planes so I imagine things are a bit easier than carrying things on your back. 

Still getting all those rucksacks and guns and bombs into...

Duke Nukem was a gnat's tadger away from having a "gay robot sidekick", but the character was axed for the final version of Duke Nukem Forever, the forthcoming game for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. However, it may still make an appearance in a future...

Augmented reality is all around us and it’s been helping Hollywood storytellers tell their adventures for a very long time and will probably continue to do so in the future.

While we've spent much of AR Week on Pocket-lint so far explaining...