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Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities and making life easier for residents but by doing so create more challenges for policymakers.

New cities should not be built to cater for robots and technology; instead robots must adapt to live with humans in existing cities.

And your other questions answered about the machines rolling through campus.

A fleet of robots are cruising around the Near West Side, bring meals and other goods to students and faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Human rights advocates worry about use of armed robots

Dr Douglas Blackiston describes xenobots as 'computer-designed life forms' and says they could help researchers learn more about various human diseases.

For their first trip to a celebrated robotics contest for high school students from scores of countries, a team of Ukrainian teens had a problem. With shipments of goods to Ukraine uncertain, and Ukrainian customs officers careful about incoming merchandise, the group only received a base kit of gadgetry on…

A new wave of robots is arriving -- and, in a world short of workers, business leaders are more eager to welcome them than ever.

You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way.