Aging populations, supply-chain woes and the electric-vehicle revolution could boost demand for robots manufactured by companies such as Japan’s Fanuc.

The company has spent the past two years stealthily learning how to design and build its own delivery robots, coming soon to a city near you.

Rethink Robotics How collaborative robots could make work better Traditionally, robots are custom built to do one job and must be programmed specifically for that task.

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to design microscale swimming robots from materials such as liquid crystal ...

DIY soft robot heaven is a place on the internet And researchers want to speed up that pace even further. Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently published an open source ...

These digital agents can be paired to work together as a team in order to build complicated, organically shaped three-dimensional structures as high as 15 feet tall.

Ukraine is racing to build a robotic army as the war is increasingly transforming into a technological contest with Russia.

Scientists working on robot octopuses choose their materials carefully, so the robots can perform well underwater for long periods without corroding.

Building robots motivated to create the “greatest good for the greatest number”, or to “treat others as you would wish to be treated” would be safer than laying down simplistic rules.