Cleaning robot Franzi makes sure
floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, and has taken on a
new role during the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff.
Smart robots can chat about the weather and answer customers' questions. Now some companies in Germany are testing which tasks human-like robots can take on and the expectations are high.
A vicious spat is cleaving Germany society in two, and politicians seem helpless to do anything about it - but two nine-year-olds from Bavaria reckon they have found the answer.
German car maker Mercedes has given robots at its factory some tough news - they’ve become redundant in the modern world and will be replaced by more flexible humans.
An expert on unmanned weapon systems has told The Local that Germany should not be pushing forward with its own armed unmanned drones as the robot arms race heats up.
German scientists have spent two years developing a robotic kangaroo which imitates the hopping of a real animal. They have released a video of the bionic marsupial hopping around.
German scientists have built an artistic robot which can paint impressionist landscapes, portraits and still-lifes. But are David the robot’s paintings more than the sum of his parts?
German robot scientists say they have made a key breakthrough with a cheap, light-weight robotic hand which can grasp objects almost as well as human fingers.
Proud technology students unveiled a shopping robot on Tuesday, with a test-run through a southern German town which they hailed as a success, even though it took ages – and like the Daleks, had to avoid steps.
Can you put a robot in the dock? Not yet, but we need to think about it – as artificially intelligent robots step from fantasy into daily life, legal and ethical questions emerge which require answers, says one German legal professor.
Bodies of people killed in the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic near Brazil in 2009 have been found, French officials said Monday. Their search for the wreckage and victims – among them 28 Germans – was aided by a robot from a Kiel institute.
Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains have become a major draw at Hannover's high-tech CeBIT fair this week.
