One example of such an accident is the house-cleaning robot that, in its single-minded pursuit of cleanliness, destroys objects, such as a vase, which obstruct its goal.

How to Build a Robot That Won't Take Over the World The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior.

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.

Because all the sorting is done properly at home, recycling centers shouldn’t have to spend money on workers to separate various materials. The Lasso should clean all of the materials as well ...

The Shonkbot is what the team at Bristol Hackspace came up with for a robot that is obvious in its working and encouragingly easy to build, even for kids (with supervision).

What once seemed like a gimmick and over-complicated, robot lawn mowers have entered a newer, simpler era.

An Apple robotics division has risen from the ashes of the Apple Car and wants to build an autonomous robot companion for your home.

Why not the real world? The main obstacle to scaling this model up, and why we’re not putting this on any real robot yet, is that it’s hard to compute the channel capacity of an agent and a human far ...

Check out Pulte’s video of their construction robot at work. For more details on PulteGroup’s construction initiatives and technologies, visit their website here.