Predicting the future is fraught with peril. Predicting the future is fraught with peril, especially for the science writer enthralled by the promise of a new technology. But that hasn’t stopped ...

Things had been slow around the farm. “You’re always slow,” Cousin Ollie chided. I glared. But Ollie didn’t notice since he was jumping three or four paces ahead of me, as usual. “I don’t run unless a ...

Many dairy producers in Maine have trouble finding the workforce they need to maintain sustainable operations. Could robots step in? The University of Maine recently unveiled a robotic milking barn — ...

Florida Tech students are developing a robotic manatee, called "Mechanatee," to study real manatees without disturbing them. The robot will mimic the movements and communication of manatees to gather ...

Headingley is known for the infamous ‘Otley Run’, a pub crawl to the town centre often done in fancy dress, which is seen as a rite of passage for students. While the robots are well established ...

DECLO — More than 1,000 dairy cows will move out of Heglar Creek Dairy’s conventional barn in September and into a new robotic milking barn where they will sleep on waterbeds. In the voluntary milking ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A robotic cow strolled through Downtown Topeka Thursday afternoon, with a message. Charli XC Cow is an AI-powered robot calf advocating for PETA, sporting a 3-D printed calf head ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Minn. • A lot has changed in the 70 years Janski Farms has operated. Everything but one building has been expanded, converted, newly constructed or upgraded to keep up with the times. And ...

Philip K. Dick's famous 1968 sci-fi novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,' explored blurred lines between what's real, what's fake, and dystopian cyberpunk notions about robot consciousness.