Among the many advances in robot science comes a surprise: Our brains may think of even the most machine-like robots as slightly human.

Human-bot interactions are slowly becoming a bigger part of our life. But we're still emotional creatures, and there are certain delicate, revealing moments that may make relations with robots tricky.

We wrote about a lot of machines in 2011. Here are the best of our future (dancing!) robot overlords.

Robots dancing, robots running, robots snaking, robot actors acting out, and robots...controlling humans. Scared? Don't be!

Germans have found a way to create super-secure virtual "work phones" on Android devices. This could become a new, competitive threat to the already beleaguered Research In Motion.

Robots are getting more expressive, more than being mere lumps of plastic designed to do jobs for us in handy ways. They can now almost sing...

There's always a hand out-stretched begging for cash for a cause, it seems. But here's a robotic one, attached to Little Red (Digital) Riding Hood. Will cuteness deliver more cash?

"The Skynet missile defense system goes online April 19th 2011, declares war on mankind, and triggers a nuclear apocalypse two days later." So says the Terminator story anyway, imagining a tomorrow peopled with killer robots. They're not killers yet--but they're undoubtedly crafty.

Today's robots may be astonishing, scary, or militarily useful, but they rarely move like humans. That may change with the latest developments in bot tech. Can we now trust them?