An international team of scientists has developed a soft robotic hand that literally perspires in response to excess heat. This innovative concept could improve the durability and endurance of robots, ...

For early researchers in artificial intelligence who were out to play God, it turned out the devil was in the details. Their efforts to re-create human intelligence in hardware and software have led ...

The Los Angeles fire department rolled out the first firefighting robot in the US at a major fire earlier this month, CNN reports. The golfcart-sized Thermite RS3 Robotic Firefighting Vehicle features ...

Researchers from Harvard, MIT, and Cornell have collaborated to create what is arguagly the first real-world Transformer. Inspired by the Japanese art of origami, the team’s folding robot can ...

The soft robot fingers were installed as a gripper on a robot hand and used to grab objects, and it was found that the cooling effect also reduced the temperature of the object being handled. "The ...

If you have a kid heading to college in the fall, it might be time to have the talk. It's okay to experiment, but don't go crazy for the first robot you meet -- you'll have others. That's because ...

If you’re one of those types who can’t look at a single robot without picturing a bleak future in which robots have taken over and turned us all into slaves, then you might want to skip Boston ...