This robot paper plane designer (really a robot arm fashioned with silicone grippers) can run through this whole process without human feedback. A video of the robot at work.

Like killing elephants, paper airplane construction is a skill passed from father to son generation after generation -- at least until the robots take over. Dr. James Porter knows this and has ...

You might have heard of the da Vinci surgical robot — it's the state-of-the-art system used by surgeons to operate remotely, and although it's quite a bulky setup, it's also nearly as precise as ...