Researchers at Northwestern University are definitely not helping prevent the robot apocalypse with their latest invention: The smallest remote-controlled robot in the world.

Researcher Christopher Clarke controls a TV with his coffee cup. Lancaster University. Have you ever gone to change the channel, then realized your remote had fallen behind the couch?

Robotic officers in Houston successfully controlled Canadarm 2, the space station's robotic arm, by remote control during a test in late February of this year. The success of the test brings about ...