Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

WALL-E is a simple robot with a simple life, but I think that's where he gets most of his charm. That simplistic charm definitely carries over to the Nintendo DS version of his theatrical adventure ...

A new framework has been designed to push forward swarm intelligence, the branch of AI that mimics the group behaviors of ...

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

Ever heard of the Keepon robot? Originally created as a therapeutic tool to interact with children with autism and other social disorders, this cute, dancing, and addictive social robot has gained ...

The Bionic QuadTrack Stair Climbing System is a shell for Dreame's robot vacuums, not a vacuum itself, and can transform a ...

Neil Tyler talks to Daniel Camilleri, founder and chief executive of BOW, a spinout that has developed a single software solution that can control any robot. BOW is a Sheffield-based company that ...

Kumar says those types of scenarios partly inspired the idea of the triple backflip. Engineers can control each individual ...

If you want to survive the robot apocalypse—the nerd joke goes—just close the door. For all that they’re great at (precision, speed, consistency), robots still suck at manipulating door handles, among ...

Inspired by a theoretical model of particles moving around on a chessboard, new robot swarm research shows that, as magnetic interactions increase, dispersed 'dumb robots' can abruptly gather in large ...