3D-printed robot cracks smartphone`s four-digit PIN code in less than 20 hours

Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2013, 13:19

A cheap 3-D printed robot is capable of breaking a typical Android phone`s 4-digit lock in less than 20 hours.

`Touchy-feely` robos come closer to reality

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 23:04

Researchers have developed a flexible sensor, which can detect temperature, pressure and humidity simultaneously, and more accurately than currently existing devices.

Now, a robot artist that can paint `masterpieces`

Last Updated: Monday, July 15, 2013, 21:37

Developed by a team at the University of Konstanz in Germany, e-David uses software to decide where to add the next brush stroke.

DARPA unveils humanoid robot

Last Updated: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 19:38

The US military has unveiled one of its most-advanced humanoid robots known as Atlas, which was created to assist in future emergency situations, the American Forces Press Service reported.

Now, humanoid robot to make you coffee

Last Updated: Monday, July 8, 2013, 15:24

A Japanese company has developed a robot that can make coffee for its owner.

Now, humanoid robot that sees and maps in 3D

Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 19:17

Researchers have developed one of the most advanced humanoid robots in the world that maps reference relative to its surroundings and is able to "remember" where it has been before.

Chinese firm files case against Apple's Siri technology

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 13:08

Siri Inc, acquired by Apple in 2010, started producing the mobile virtual assistant in 2007.

Robot fish swims like a carp

Last Updated: Sunday, June 30, 2013, 17:00

Researchers from the National University of Singapore`s (NUS) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a robot fish that mimics the movements of a carp.

World`s first talking robot-astronaut ready to go to space

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 19:34

In a world first, Japan is set to send a talking robot-astronaut to the International Space Station to conduct the first conversation between a human and a robot in outer space.

Now, four-legged robot that runs like a cat

Last Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013, 15:22

Catbot! Swiss scientists have developed a four-legged cheetah-cub robot that runs like a cat and could be used for search and rescue missions.

Scientist develops body-double robot

Last Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013, 20:38

A Japanese scientist has developed a body-double robot which resembles him closely, with tiny human-like movements and blinking eyes.

Zoe robot heading back to Atacama Desert to search for subsurface life

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 19:14

The autonomous, solar-powered Zoe is returning to the world`s driest desert,Atacama,this month on a NASA astrobiology mission to search for subsurface life.