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Intel on Sunday launched a home health care device that helps patients manage chronic conditions and connect with their doctors.

Researchers in the U.K. and the U.S. on Friday published a paper detailing discoveries that might bring a fully functional quantum computer one step closer to reality.

Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several US states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

Robots are fun to play with, but they can be insolent during social interaction with humans if badly programmed, a researcher said on Tuesday.

As the Mars Lander continues to scoop up soil for analysis, it has taken its very first microscopic image of a single piece of Martian dust.

Next Tuesday will see the official opening of Digital Lifeware, Australia's fist Manufacture on Demand [MOD] software store.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system developer Control Microsystems and telecommunications IT supplier TUSC announced a partnership to provide end-to-end solutions for Australian utilities.

An art installation in Coney Island that uses robots to simulate waterboarding, a torturous interrogation tactic that's been used on detainees at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention center, is creating a national stir as it raises public awareness about the controversial practice.

Think personal robots are still the stuff of sci-fi movies? Think again.

A robot which mimics human emotions and responds to the way it is treated was recently displayed at the Science Museum in London.

As the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor made the journey home after a 16-day mission, scientists at NASA and the Canadian Space Agency credit them with taking the first step in a robotic partnership that will help humans press further out into the solar system.

If you've become hostage to a clutch of remote controls in your living room, never quite sure what all the buttons do and confusing different controllers for different gadgets, then Toshiba might have the answer. It's developed a prototype robot that can act as a voice gateway to just about anything in the room that has a remote control.

Starting in May, many will have the opportunity to see for themselves how they did computing the old-fashioned way: with lots of gears, a big crank and some muscle.