A long time ago, robots belonged to science fiction. Children loved looking at movies with robots. Today, robots are real, and they are helping us. In the future, we will all have robots. They will vacuum the floor, wash the dishes, perhaps even driv

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The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is urging the United Nations to begin talks about banning the use and development of autonomous weapons systems. Representatives from more than 70 countries are attending a five-day meeting in Geneva of the Conventi

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AS IT IS 2016-10-03 Newest Service Robots Act Like Humans Machines are now doing many jobs usually performed by people. One new invention is a machine that operates cars and other vehicles in parking garages. Another kind of robot can transport food

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Robots Branch Out Across Workforce Industrial robots started replacing humans long ago in tedious and dangerous jobs, such as welding thousands of identical parts for vehicles. Today, more sophisticated robots are capable of precisely lifting and mov

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Farmer Jamie Butler is testing a new worker on his farm in Englands Hampshire countryside. Butler hopes the new worker will help the 180-hectare farm produce more wheat and not harm the environment. The laborer does not say a thing while inspecting B

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By Philip Graitcer Atlanta, Georgia 14 August 2007 A robot playing a modified game of football Many people think of robots that think and act like human as the stuff of the future or characters in science fiction movies. But a recent competition at a

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Are the machines taking over? Well not yet, but they are making quite an impression at the international travel fair in Berlin. Two humanoid robots - named Chihira Kanae and Mario - are at the event, to show how hey can be put to use in the travel an

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By Cathryn Curtis Washington, DC 23 March 2006 watch Surgery Robots Doctors in the U.S. are increasingly using a new hi-tech tool in the surgery room -- robots. VOA's Cathryn Curtis reports on doctors

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Giant Robots Do Battle in Action-Packed 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' The mechanical toy robots known as Transformers first appeared on store shelves in the 1980s. They spawned TV shows, comic books and finally big, loud motion pictures. The third

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Robots Help US Manufacturers Compete With China In what may be the beginning of a new trend in American manufacturing, Sunit Saxena recently moved his production operation from China to the United States. Just like everyone else we started in China b

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SCOTT DETROW, HOST: On a growing number of dairy farms, people don't decide when the cows need to be milked. The cows do. That's because farmers have called in robots to do the milking - day or night. And for some families - the ones that run small d

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's a good chance something you've purchased once passed through the hands of a picker. These are the warehouse workers who pick, pack and ship to us all those products we order online. We'll learn more about them and the cha

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We were in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, where the hospitality and gaming industries drive most of the economy, employing some 300,000 people, which is why a 2017 study predicting a massive disruption - the loss of up to

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Market demand for robots is growing in China as the country faces an increasing aging society and greater demand for skilled labor. Company managers say they are optimistic the robot business will grow by at least 10 percent next year. Gu Chunyuan, p

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China is soon expected to become the largest user of industrial robots. Robot manufacturers have dismissed worries that better technology will force lower-paid workers out of jobs. For more, here is our reporter Laiming. Amid talks of China's economi

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As one of the biggest industrial robot markets in the world, China is developing its smart technologies to provide better educational and care services for children and the elderly. Children in a kindergarten on the outskirts of Beijing are solving p

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Hundreds of American high school students design and build robots that can score soccer goals Julie Taboh | Washington, DC 01 April 2010 Nathan Hicks, (left) FIRST competitor, with his mentor, Stewart Ocheltree, expects to return again next year, win

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Alibaba's logistics subsidiary Cainiao Network brought its automatic guided vehicles (AGV) to this year's China International Fair for Trade in Services. Several AGV robots loaded with goods moved around a display area, attracting a crowd of onlooker

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Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day. Ma has realized his childhood

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The 4th Shanghai International Technology Fair has just concluded in Shanghai, and robots were one of the fair's biggest attractions. ICS reporter Wu Ying asked some robot developers how long it might be -- before we can start using them in our homes

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