As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.

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.

Huang Tao spent his demanding school years at Cangnan Middle School, where he gained a solid foundation and broad vision. He later became an undergraduate at ShanghaiTech University and subsequently ...

To create an intelligent robot, the team first needs to engineer body feedback systems, including adding more sensors in the arms to detect how much the limbs have extended or contracted.

Human-robot interaction suggests there’ll likely be many contexts where robots don’t displace workers but rather make the ...

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 ...

Engineers have created a new type of robot that places living fungi behind the controls.The biohybrid robot uses electrical signals from an edible type of mushroom called a king trumpet in order to ...

A robot can now travel through the human body to cure diseases. Scientists have created a Transformers-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The shape-shifting device ...

Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.

But a start-up company called Grabit is using static electricity as a way to allow robots to manipulate the real world. In particular, Nike is using these robots to build shoes.

In both the consumer and industrial worlds, scientists are working to make robots more human like. But while there are some common goals—and even similar applications—the vision can be quite ...

To get the most mileage of out your robot, add the dimension of mobility by incorporating a linear seventh axis.