280 teams from 16 countries compete in Beijing robot games Games provide data for practical robot applications, organisers say China invests billions in robotics amid tech competition with U.S BEIJING ...

Many of the most exciting discoveries in science and technology come from nature itself. Be it airplanes modeled after birds, to Velcro inspired by burrs sticking to clothes, scientists have always ...

In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the ...