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.

Aging populations, supply-chain woes and the electric-vehicle revolution could boost demand for robots manufactured by companies such as Japan’s Fanuc.

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

DIY soft robot heaven is a place on the internet And researchers want to speed up that pace even further. Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently published an open source ...

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

Ever wanted to build a robot? Trick question. Everybody wants to build a robot. Since the dawn of man, it’s been our mission to create untethered beauty and then immediately subjugate it to our ...

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 ...

Xiaomi unveiled a working humanoid robot prototype dubbed CyberOne.

Scientists working on robot octopuses choose their materials carefully, so the robots can perform well underwater for long periods without corroding.

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.