Safety is taken seriously by multinational giant Cargill at their beef processing plants.

A friend who travelled to Las Vegas last week, for the Conor McGregor MMA fight, brought back a tale almost as interesting as the pugilistic drama that unfolded.

Some 39% of Irish adults are worried about robots or artificial intelligence (AI) replacing their jobs.

Two out of every five jobs in Ireland are set to disappear or change substantially over the next 20 years because of increasing automation.

A cancer patient is recovering at home after being operated on in two areas at the same time in a rare procedure using a robot.

Yesterday’s Hiqa report that elderly residents were restrained and left in soiled incontinence wear at a Beaumont hospital nursing home underlines that we may have to, sooner or later, bring the same legislative energy to end of life issues as we now focus on the other end of that cycle.

A "robot scientist" has helped researchers identify a chemical compound found in toothpaste that could help in the fight against malaria.

A robot from Japan is being heralded as the the latest breakthrough for dementia sufferers. Margaret Jennings talks to a UCD professor who wants its inventors to introduce it here

When I gave it a bit more thought though, I fell half in love with the idea of having my own personal robot to mind me, writes Terry Prone.

A new swimming robot is set to investigate damage at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Hey, a person can dream, can't they?

This is the ultimate manicure weapon. The Nailbot.

Over 100 experts, 12 international organisations and more than 120 companies were represented at Beijing’s World Robot Exhibition at the end of November.

With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital face, the robotic creation of two researchers in Canada is hitchhiking across the US.

A prototype robot being built for a Cork teenager born without limbs will be put through its paces by its makers on Friday.

The search is on for an actor to play Will Smith's co-star in his next film, I, Robot, which is set to go into production in April.