The robot apocalypse is nigh. Boston Dynamics’ robots are doing backflips and opening doors for their friends. Oh, and these 7-foot-long robot arms can lift 500 pounds each, which means they ...

Learn to build robots Each wheel has a wheel encoder built-in, so you can precisely measure how far each wheel has moved and how far the robot has moved.

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

A future generation of robots will not be programmed to complete specific tasks. Instead, they will use A.I. to teach themselves.

Efforts are underway to make robots smarter, including deep learning and new algorithms, which allow robots to learn things faster.

Even the smartest robot does a miserable job picking up objects it hasn't been programmed to recognize. One way robots may get better at it is to learn by experience, a researcher says.

But if you build a machine or a control system or a culture around never falling, then you’ll never learn what you need to learn to make your robot not fall.

Engineers have created a robot arm that could learn, through practice, what its own form can do, hinting at future self-aware machines.

Researchers developed a novel learning-based method so robots on extraterrestrial bodies can make decisions on their own about where and how to scoop up terrain samples.

The new algorithm could help robots make safer, smarter decisions around humans, even amidst the greatest uncertainties.

By observing their own motions, robots can learn how to overcome damage to their bodies, which could make them more adaptable for a wide variety of applications.