Videos that suggest China may be building a robot army sound like science fiction, but social media says it's real. DW Fact Check investigates.

Scientists discovered robotic alien spiders from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Earth's polar ice sheets in October 2025. In October 2025, a Facebook post (archived) about an unusual finding spread ...

Since 2024, a video has circulated online purportedly showing surveillance footage of a small robot, named Erbai, convincing 12 other humanoid robots at a robotics showroom in China to leave their ...

Artificial life forms have come a long way from when moviegoers first encountered Robby the Robot in “Forbidden Planet” (1959). Sentient robots, androids and other artificial life forms have been a ...