The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

Ukraine is racing to build a robotic army as the war is increasingly transforming into a technological contest with Russia.

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms are working on an ambitious project, designing robots that effectively self-assemble.

Here’s our soft robot hand in action: This article was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Wave Hello To A Soft Robot Hand.” ...

How to Build a Robot Octopus Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot ...

Elon Musk said Thursday night at Tesla’s AI Day that the company is building a humanoid robot, and will probably have a prototype next year. “It’s basically going to start dealing with work ...

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to design microscale swimming robots from materials such as liquid crystal ...

“We need to flip the script and use technology as part of the solution and the new system for how we build skills.” Beane has spent more than a decade examining work involving intelligent machines, ...

It takes building a few not very good robots to learn how to build better ones. You’ve got to be hands on and trying things. If it doesn’t work, always find out why at all costs, and then fix it.