The Robot Age is upon us. Please read the last line of this quote very carefully: …now he can lie down and get back up onto his feet, distinguish between different colours and sounds, grip and pick up ...

Robosapien, a burping, kung-fu fighting robot, is one of this year's hot Christmas gifts. But an older, pudgier counterpart--an out-of-production R2-D2 robot from "Star Wars"--is proving a popular ...

Well, not that last part, anyway. The successor to the uber-popular RoboSapien is, however, a smart-talking, three-wheeled robot called Tribot, which the guys from WowWee were showing off last night.

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...