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Robot
A robot is a machine that is programmed to perform certain tasks autoamtically.
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Your new friend is a robot
Social robots are THE new tech gadgets of the moment.
Robots in medicine and education
Robotics is not just science fiction any more. It's here and ready for action in medicine and education.
Friendship with robots
Japan and its enthusiasm for robots
Dancing Drones
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich are trying out new uses for quadcopters. Equipped with the necessary computing power, the four-rotor drones become flying robots able to communicate and work together to perform tasks beyond the capabilities of one alone.
The Future of Road Traffic
How many years will it take until we see autonomous cars out there on the road? Florian Lennert, an expert from the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Research in Berlin talks about intelligent cars and the reliability of robotic vehicles.
Robot taxis on their way
Taxi service Lyft and carmaker General Motors have announced a collaboration to develop robot taxis.
Should robots be used to care for the elderly?
Robot caregivers elicit strong emotional responses, but so does the debate going on around her.
Viewer's question
…asks Abhishek Tewari from Jaunpur, India. Einsteinchen has the answer.
Robots to teach refugee children German
Combining artificial intelligence and language acquisition skills, robots will soon teach refugee children German.
Five reasons why DIY is the future of computing
More and more kids - and adults - want to make their own things, including computers. DIY kits will get you coding.
Spectrum: robots and cashless Swedes
In this week's Spectrum, we hear from Alice, the friendly carebot and why Swedes are going cashless.
Meet Alice, the carebot
She looks like a little girl, but she is a robot designed to take care of the elderly.
Stone sculpting with the Help of a Robot
Reonciling hightech and craftsmanship
Japan's success with robots
Researchers from Japan and Germany are trying to reduce the fear of contact with robots.
Quiz
The question this time is: Who originally recorded “Die Roboter”? a) Kraftwerk, b) Kraftzwerg, c) Kraftberg. You could win CDs from Lilabungalow, Ebow, Nena and a serious boxset from the Scorpions. The right answer to our quiz from October 17th, 2015 was c) Haddaway. Congratulations to Fabian Straube from Sülzetal in Germany!
Nigerian kids learn robot tech
DW's Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos, Nigeria on a project helping children from low-income households.
AfricaLink on Air - 29 September 2015
UK to send troops to S. Sudan, Somalia +++ Germany sentences two Rwandan warlords +++ Nigerian school teens build robots
AfricaLink on Air - 29 September 2015: 0705 UTC
UK to send troops to S. Sudan, Somalia +++ Germany sentences two Rwandan warlords +++ Nigerian school teens build robots
AfricaLink on Air - 29 September 2015: 0405 UTC
Uganda withdraws its peace keepers from South Sudan as UK plans to deploy troops to South Sudan and Somalia
Robots print themselves through AI evolution
Experts in Norway are making robots which have designed themselves through a process of artificial evolution.
Who killed hitchBOT?
DW's Sci-Tech desk knows who killed hitchBOT, the world's most beloved hitchhiking robot.
Hitchhiking robot wrecked in Philadelphia
Social experiment robot hitchBOT has ended its latest road trip in Philadelphia as a result of vandalism.
Robots in our everyday lives
Humanoid robots are getting more and more similar to us. And a few actually perform pretty well in our world.
Drones – Busy bees for industry
The Microdrones company from western Germany produces drones for useG by industry.
Tech experts warn against 'killer robots'
More than 1,000 leading scientists have penned an open letter condemning the possibility of an AI arms race.
Japan's robot assistants
Once the preserve of automated factories and research laboratories, androids are stepping out into Japanese society.
Architecture from the printer
Amsterdam could soon see new bridges produced by printers.
Summertime Spectrum (2/3)
This week, another chance to hear a special edition of the show recorded at the Hanover industrial tech fair.
Volkswagen: Robot kills worker installing it
VW has disclosed that a contractor was killed by a robot on an assembly line near Frankfurt.
Swarms of robots are buzzing in Graz
We head now to Graz, Austria - to a story about artificial intelligence. Robots that swarm like bees or form schools like fish - all interacting with each other - have got a host of AI scientists swarming to their computers. They're excited by experiments into CoCoRo - that's Collective Cognitive Robots - at Graz University. Kerry Skyring takes us there.
Robot Pepper set to charm Japan
He can gauge your mood and cheer you up - Pepper, the human-like robot goes on sale to consumers in Japan.
Robots as Ship Inspectors
They crawl, fly or climb. We're talking robots which help inspect all the important parts of a ship from every angle. The information they gather, for instance about corrosion, is passed on to the ship's control room for review.
Industry 4.0
At this year's Hanover Fair, networked production is finally becoming a reality.
The car makes the decisions
The introduction of the autonomous car is not that simple: Who is responsible in case of an accident?
Merkel in Japan, touches on WWII
Merkel touches on war-time past in Tokyo ahead of G7 summit in Bavaria
Meet HitchBOT - the hitchhiking robot
A robot from Canada, named hitchBOT, is now touring Germany. Around 1.2 meters tall, it has a face lit up by LEDs and employs speech recognition technology. DW reporter Christoph Hartmann picked up hitchBOT and took him for a ride through Hamburg.
Spectrum: Smart tech
India's ailing rural healthcare; a hitchhiking robot, and a conversing Barbie; your dog may be smarter than you think.
HitchBOT in Germany
So why is a robot hitchhiking across Germany? A co-creator of hitchBOT explains to DW from Social Media Week in Hamburg.
Tapping into a new source of protein
Scientists in Bavaria have found a new way to extract high-level protein from lupines.
A hitchhiking robot tours Germany with help from strangers
A hitchhiking robot from Canada is touring Germany with a little help from strangers.
Justin, the sensitive robot
Robots are meant to do dangerous, repetitive jobs in isolation. In Germany, occupational safety laws forbid people from even entering their work space, because robots are unable to perceive when they pose a threat to humans. But Justin the sensitive robot is different.
Robot tours Germany
Robot tours Germany
'Science' magazine's top 10 of 2014
Ten scientific discoveries and developments that changed the world in 2014.
Dancing like robots
Find out why these two Danish dancers have become YouTube stars.
Thicker ice in the Antarctic: good news for the climate?
New measurements show Antarctic sea ice is much thicker in places than previously thought.
Drugs: speed development
Researchers in Munich have developed a process to test agents in cells in a very short time.
Philae's landing
ESA has narrowed it down to one landing site for the Rosetta probe to make contact with a comet.
Tomorrow Today Viewer Question
Our viewer Shorinjiryu Bhowmick from Siliguri, India wants to know: Is it possible to build robots that have feelings?
Penguins on wheels
Rolling robots may not be a penguin’s best friend, but what about something more familiar?
'Math is sexy!'
A prize-winning German mathematician explains how math is used in everyday life.
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