SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- The Santa Maria and Grover Beach police departments are now equipped with new tactical crime fighting robots. On Wednesday, the police departments each officially received ...

In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a team of robots have been picking berries all summer. Each robot, made by a Colorado company called Tortuga ...

The Oceanic Outlaws think fast. The robotics team from Royal Middle School, representing Washington state, took first place ...

At the root of it all is the likeness to the female robot, often called “Maria,” in Fritz Lang’s masterwork of futurism, Metropolis. Maria has inspired countless cultural references ...