For Steve Norris, making hand-built robots is the perfect hobby. He's a software engineer at work and handyman at home, so DIY robotics brings together his interests in hardware, electronics and A.I.

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Robots are often imagined as hard, shiny things, gleaming futuristic machines. They often are hard, shiny things. But sometimes they’re softer than a baby butt and more flexible than an Illinois ...

Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

Here’s one way to tackle the dreaded task of assembling your Ikea furniture: Get a robot to do it for you. With some off-the-shelf robotics hardware and a substantial amount of programming, ...

If you thought the cronut was an inventive bit of baking, prepare to be wowed. Robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have mastered a technique which could usher in a world ...

What if I told you that a robot can make you a cup of coffee just by watching a video of a human doing it? It's almost hard to believe, but it actually happened. Thanks to a breakthrough in artificial ...