15-05-21 Soon you could be competing with a robot for a job. 人们可能很快会跟机器人抢饭碗了。 Economists are sharply divided over the exact timing of the threat from robots and other forms of futuristic technology. Some see an imminent threat, others believe...

15-04-19 Picture the scene: You come home after work feeling too exhausted to cook only to find a delicious meal worthy of a Michelin-starred restaurant waiting for you. 想象一下这个画面：下班回家倍感疲倦不想做饭却发现可以和米其林星级餐厅的食物媲美的美味饭菜...

15-04-14 A robot has been sent inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. 一个机器人已经被送入日本福岛核电站的一座反应堆中。 Japanese officials are hoping the robot will be able to locate the melted nuclear fuel debris left-over from...

14-06-05 Japanese firm Softbank has unveiled a robot called Pepper, which it says can read human emotions. 日本软银公司研制出一款名为辣椒的机器人，据称该机器人能识别人类情感。 Softbank says it plans to launch the robot commercially in Japan next year It uses...

13-07-10 Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA's new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously（独立自主地） in one of Earth's harshest environments. The robot known as GROVER, which...

13-05-29 A robot in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab has learned to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand, or more accurately, roll in and offer a helping claw. Understanding when and where to pour a beer or knowing when to offer a...

12-09-10 Doraemon, Japan's robot cat from the future, will celebrate turning minus 100 years old by being given official residence of the city where he will be born, a city official told the reporters on Friday. 为了庆祝来自未来的日本机器猫哆啦A梦负100岁的生...

12-09-07 A robot called Cheetah has set a new world speed record for legged robots, running faster than the fastest human. 一个名叫猎豹的机器人创造了有腿机器人的速度记录，其速度比最快的人类还要快。 The headless machine, funded by the Pentagon, reached 45.5km...

12-08-10 Nasa's new Mars rover has returned its first 360-degree colour panorama from the surface of the Red Planet. 美宇航局新着陆的火星探测车发回了红色星球的首张360度全景彩色照片。 The Curiosity robot used its wideangle science camera placed high up on a m...

11-08-24 One morning, manager asked me going to deliver a heavy water feature. He said: This water feature is very heavy, you should be careful and I'll find a pair of boots for you. What size do you wear? Number six. Ok! Let me go to find. A few minutes lat...