Motoko Kusanagi, better known as “the Major,” is the cyborg hero of the famous manga, anime, and soon-to-be live-action film, Ghost in the Shell. The title itself refers to the idea that the Major was ...

Much will be made this week of the poor box-office showing of “RoboCop,” the $130 million remake about a human-machine hybrid that sputtered to a weekend opening gross of about $21.5 million. On ...

Artificial life forms have come a long way from when moviegoers first encountered Robby the Robot in “Forbidden Planet” (1959). Sentient robots, androids and other artificial life forms have been a ...

While the most powerful robots are still learning to walk, millions of years of evolution has made animals masters of tricky terrain. To take advantage of this scientists are exploring ways to augment ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have managed to create a kind of cyborg, by integrating the ear of a locust into a robot. The robot was then able to respond to noises that the biological sensor ...

NTU Singapore scientists have built the world’s first automated cyborg insect “factory line”. Supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), this new prototype robotic system automates ...