This may be the first empathetic utterance by a commercial machine. In the late 1990s the Boston company SpeechWorks International began supplying companies with customer-service software programmed ...

Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics—constraints on the behavior of androids and automatons meant to ensure the safety of humans—were also famously incomplete. The laws, which first appeared ...

Discover the fascinating process of creating a spider robot right at home with our easy-to-follow guide! This video takes you step by step through the materials needed and the assembly process. Learn ...

Maybe you're hoping to star on a robot fighting television show some day, or maybe you just fancy a new hobby, but for all kinds of reasons robotics is a fascinating industry for tech lovers - and one ...

If you’ve got the will, you’ll find the way to build your own tactical robot, at home, with a 3D printer. This guy did it. Engineering Juice is passionate about, you guessed it, engineering and has a ...

Wire Up Prepare the wiring and electrical components: Jumper wires. Construction goes faster with pre-made jumper wires for the BYFR’s main electrical cables. You want an assortment of five or 10 ...

Robots are creeping farther into our lives each month. Kickstarter right now is packed with more than 1,100 projects that aim to build robot bartenders, robot gardeners and even a 15-foot robot clone ...

New research shows that microscale robots can be made from shape shifting 2D sheets. Itai Cohen and Itay Griniasty of Cornell University in the US have developed a mathematical technique for encoding ...

Robots can walk, talk, run a hotel … and are entirely stumped by a doorknob. Or a mailbox. Or a dirty bathtub—zzzzt, dead. Sure, the SpotMini, a doglike domestic helper from Boston Dynamics, can climb ...

Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot Octopuses are some of the most complex, bizarre and intelligent creatures in ...

I wanted to start building robots the moment I saw the sci-fi movie classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original, mind you, not the remake). My initial attempt, shortly thereafter, was cobbled ...