It may sound like science fiction, but there are dozens of robots in real life, and you've likely encountered some. Check out the futuristic but totally real robots changing the world. Most people ...

As director of the Maryland Robotics Center, Satyandra Gupta oversees 25 faculty members working on all things robotic: snake-inspired robots, robotic swarms, minirobots for medicine and robots ...

Big Hero 6 was one of Disney's recent sleeper hits, and now the company's high tech lab is working on bringing Baymax, its inflatable robot hero, to reality. "Our goal is to bring animation characters ...

Engineers behind the working, life-sized Gundam in at the Gundam Factory in Yokohama reveal how they built the 25-ton, 60-foot-tall mech.

Training a robot in a simulation that allows it to remember how to get out of sticky situations lets it traverse difficult terrain more smoothly in real life. Joonho Lee at ETH Zurich in Switzerland ...

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.

Learn about real life robots with this KS2 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 3 and 4.

When we think about robots close robotA machine or device that can do a task automatically using a built-in computer processor and a computer program., we often think of metal machines from a science ...

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 ...

Remotely operated one-armed boxing robots, inspired by the 2011 movie Real Steel, can respond to a person’s movements in as little as one hundredth of a second. “Taking inspiration from the film and ...

There's a great moment in The Hobbit when Bilbo Baggins is exploring a stinking troll cave and finds an ancient Elven short sword, lost for centuries, buried under the muck. It’s Sting, baby. And ...