As director of the Maryland Robotics Center, Satyandra Gupta oversees 25 faculty members working on all things robotic: snake-inspired robots, robotic swarms, minirobots for medicine and robots ...

For those who resonate with the first statement — you need to upgrade from your ancient five-year-old Roomba, for example — I've vetted a handful of good robot vacuum recommendations. (I've ...

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

It’s 10 years in the future and you have to inspect a prototype that’s just been made in an Asian country. Business travel, however, is becoming a thing of the past because you can now port ...

In experiments, self-folding, heat-activated origami suits created for robots could help the machines walk, roll, sail and glide, according to the new study.

Big Hero 6 was one of Disney's recent sleeper hits, and now the company's high tech lab is working on bringing Baymax, its inflatable robot hero, to reality. "Our goal is to bring animation ...

Figure's humanoid robots are getting their first commercial deal, and will work in a BMW plant starting this year.

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. One study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable.

The robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real life medical emergencies.