High school students can find out what it feels like to build a robot from scratch and write the code that makes it move as ...

What should a robot look like if it needs to move through sand, wet bark, grass, concrete, tight spaces, and rough terrain ...

In the public imagination, robots are often envisioned as rigid, metallic constructs—towering Transformers, Pixar’s WALL-E, ...

The future arrived in China and apparently forgot to budget for electricity. A humanoid robot worth around $16,000 was filmed ...

Researchers have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can maneuver to specific ...

Engineers have developed a versatile swimming robot that nimbly navigates cluttered water surfaces. Inspired by marine flatworms, the innovative device offers new possibilities for environmental ...

A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a "brain-on-a-chip," and the researchers have been working to train the robot to ...

Getting a dental crown is far from enjoyable. It’s also time-consuming—preparation, molding, and fitting can require multiple ...

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Purdue University’s online Master of Science in Robotics equips engineers to lead in the dynamic field of robotics. This program focuses on the analysis, control, and design of robotic systems, ...