DreamWorks may have overreached at first, when they seemed hopeful that they might wedge The Wild Robot into the Best Picture race. But even as it became clear that was unlikely to happen, everything ...

Engineers from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne design a robot that can spontaneously reconfigure itself to navigate a range of extreme natural landscapes.

A new podcast from UK animal charity the RSPCA ... couldn’t imagine replacing our much-loved pets with a robot, our research shows more than one in four (26%) would consider it.

But it’s simplistic stuff, and there’s definitely more of a sense of it being an animal-themed playroom than anything else. Certainly we learn next to nothing about how the robots were ...