A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...
Santa Clara University

An engineering professor uses machine learning to improve human-centered robotics

What if a helper robot could sense when your brain was tired? Assistant professor Maria Kyrarini receives two major NSF ...
Jalopnik

Tesla Is Staking Its Future On This Painfully Slow Robot

Sure, in a vacuum, the idea of a humanoid robot makes sense: It can just slot into existing factories as a one-to-one replacement for those pesky human workers. Look at the actual tasks that Optimus ...
The Conversation

‘Swarm of one’ robot is a single machine made up of independent modules

My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, ...