Imagine driving a car with a steering that doesn't respond instantly and a GPS that always reflects where you were a second ...

Imagine a robot that doesn’t just follow commands but actually plans its actions, adjusts ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

At its heart, robotics is about building machines that can do things for us. Think of it as giving a machine a set of instructions and the ability to carry them out, often in places or for tasks that ...

The race to build the world’s first functional humanoid robots is no longer just a contest of hardware. It’s a high-stakes battle over two radically different philosophies of development, the crux of ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood ...

Google’s AI division DeepMind is pushing further into robotics after hiring a former executive from leading robot maker Boston Dynamics. Aaron Saunders, who served as the chief technology officer at ...