In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that can chillingly mimic human facial expressions and emotions in scientists' latest attempt to replace workers with machines.

Robot dogs and other technologies including drones in use at what is claimed to be the world’s first unmanned wind farm Robot dogs have been deployed to help run what is claimed to be the world’s ...