Yes, this robot vacuum now has small appendages that you can call ‘legs’ – several inches long, that allow the floor-standing ...

The science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote about controlling intelligent machines with the three laws of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being ...

If a child designed a robot, it would probably look like Hitchbot. The team deliberately made it on the cheap - describing its look as "yard-sale chic". They were aware that it may come to harm.

a robot must never harm a human or let a human come to harm; must always obey humans unless it violates the first law; and must protect its own existence unless it violates the first or second laws.

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer, imagined the "Three Laws of Robotics" in 1942. These rules, designed to protect humans, state that a robot may not harm a human, must obey human orders, and ...