Scientists in Scotland have announced plans to create a ''robot village'' in an effort to learn how different cultures emerge in society. The University of Abertay's four-year study will feature about 60 miniature robots who will be organized into g...

Robots that artificially evolve ways to communicate with one another have been demonstrated by Swiss researchers. The ''genomes'' of the bots that found food and avoided poison most efficiently were recombined, mimicking biological natural selectio...

Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future. Visions of the status of robots around 2056 have emerged from one of ...