An emperor penguin colony has a new metallic member. A tiny robot, named "Echo," is living with the penguins in Antarctica. The unmanned vehicle will help scientists study the vulnerability of marine ...

Shenzhen’s 7‑Eleven shops are about to deliver their beverages and snacks by robots that commute on the subway. On Monday, the southern Chinese megacity launched a fleet of 41 autonomous delivery bots ...

An industrial estate in the east of Berlin is not a place one would expect to see a penguin. Yet visitors to the headquarters of technology company EvoLogics are greeted by one on a shelf. Another is ...

A rover quietly surveys the forbidding icy landscape. Suddenly, it whirrs into life: it has spotted an emperor penguin. With its antenna set to scan, the 90-centimetre-long robot trundles towards the ...