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As we start 2017, it's hard to see how household robots are going to fulfil the lofty predictions placed on them.

Lenovo showed off new software at CES 2017 called Entertainment Hub, which can "upscale" regular movies and video games into a VR experience.

Sony's first consumer OLED TV is too thin to have traditional speakers integrated. Instead, the screen itself vibrates to produce the sound.

For years CES has being dominated by technology for the active: fitness trackers, wearables, VR, and Drones. In 2017 they're still all here — drones especially — but most of the buzz is centred around the home.

Everyone wants to find the next way to make VR experiences feel more real. Are these souped-up sandals it?

California-based company shows off 'ultra-luxury' 1000-horsepower car, aims to have it on the streets in 2018.

After 15 years of development, an Israeli tech firm hopes it will finally get its 1500 kg passenger-carrying drone off the ground and into the market by 2020.

Amazon is exploring the use of giant airships to serve as mobile, flying warehouses that could help the online retail giant deliver more of its goods by drone.

Sound as good as a Steinway piano.

​Mark Zuckerberg has a new housemate: Jarvis, an artificial intelligence assistant he created this year that can control appliances, play music, recognise faces and, perhaps most impressively, entertain his toddler.

It is being sold as salvation for Japan's lonely hearts. An attractive companion will send you text messages throughout the day to ask how you are, and welcome you home with a kind word in the evenings, the house warmed just as you like it. You can watch television together, and chat.

Uber has begun trialling self-driving cars in San Francisco, a sign the ride-share company is staking its future on doing away with drivers altogether.

It seems that even driverless robots need friends.

"He effectively told her her role on the project was just to be an ornament."

Amazon has revealed that it will open a brick-and-mortar grocery store called Amazon Go, an ambitious bid by the once online-only retailer to gobble up more of Americans' shopping dollars by taking the fight more directly to traditional supermarkets.

Software company bought in big when 3D printing looked like the next big thing, but it didn't exactly pan out.

'Established manufacturers and new entrants should be treated equally' when it comes to autonomous cars, iPhone-maker tells US regulator.

Google's latest gadget is an always on, always listening little speaker called Home. It's a cute design, a friendly little blob of a thing that looks like a half finished cartoon character. It's also not available in Australia, if you want one you'll need to have one shipped to you from the US.

Hundreds of high-tech high-skilled jobs in fast-growing businesses are going begging in Sydney because the city has become too boring and expensive, leading entrepreneurs say. 

Hate doing laundry? This Laundroid doesn't only wash and dry garments, but also sort, fold and neatly arrange them. Now its Japanese inventor has won $71 million from investors including Panasonic, and is preparing to take the business public.

Slush is coming to Australia. But what makes this start-up conference different than the rest?

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An Australian teenager has developed a maths theorem that solves ‘the unsolvable’.

Drone racing and Sexpo made strange but exciting bedfellows at the weekend.