City leaders want the South Korean company 3billion to grow from here. Hundreds of jobs are expected, and the city is ready to pony up $1,000 for every job created. Included with this report is ABJ's ...

Watching hours of YouTube videos isn’t usually considered the most prestigious form of education, but it might be a surprisingly effective tool for robots learning to communicate like humans.

This post examines the evolution of robotic laboratories and outlines the key breakthroughs required to advance toward genuinely embodied scientific intelligence. The earliest defining milestone of ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...

A European team has taken a bold step in space robotics with a new mission concept, published in Science Robotics, designed ...

For many years, like most of my peers, I thought that science was part of the solution. More knowledge and innovation would ...

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris. A European research team has unveiled a bold new mission ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like "eyebrows" and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks ...

Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl ...

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our ...