Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to communicate like ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

At 2025's Nvidia GTC event, a bipedal robot named Blue fumbled around stage and disobeyed simple commands. This year at the show, Olaf the robot did better.

Understanding Core Robotics Concepts So, what exactly is robotics? At its heart, it’s a field where engineering ...