It does not take much to confuse some robots. A machine might be great at handling a simple object like a box, yet when it ...

When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Tutor Intelligence in Watertown is a kind of kindergarten for robots.

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing ...

A team of researchers in Switzerland has introduced a new approach,allowing robots with different designs to learn and perform the same ...

Microrobots have long promised precision drug delivery inside the human body, but making them practical has remained difficult. Many designs are complex, expensive to manufacture, or hard to control ...

In what might be one of the most underappreciated technological breakthroughs of our time, Alphabet's Google DeepMind has accomplished something deceptively difficult -- teaching a robot to tie ...

Robots typically excel at structured, repeatable tasks such as welding body panels together for cars or painting those vehicles. They've long struggled with more variable, less-structured work such as ...

California's Clone Robotics has just posted a video of its full-body Protoclone humanoid robot, and well … it's a wee bit creepy. The prototype's less disturbing Clone descendants, however, could one ...

Walker S2 is an adult-sized humanoid robot with legs, a torso, and arms. China is sending these robots to patrol their border ...