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.

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.

Your Robot Vacuum Can Clean Even Better (but You Need to Do These 5 Things First) Obstacles like cords and carpets can prevent your robot vacuum from cleaning its best.

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 ...

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms are working on an ambitious project, designing robots that effectively self-assemble.

If you want robots at your beck and call someday, start thinking about robo-fitting your digs now.

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

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 ...