No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

Although biped and quadruped robots may excel at traversing uneven terrain, they require multiple sensors and complex algorithms in order to do so. Scientists have now taken a "simpler" approach, by ...

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

A Chinese humanoid robot has just delivered one of the most surreal tech demos of the year, flooring its own chief executive ...

Federal workers and Tesla shareholders find themselves in an unexpected alignment: Both are probably relieved by Elon Musk’s decision to step back from DOGE and refocus on his electric vehicle company ...

Plenty of Apple households consider robot vacuums essential smart home devices, but they’ve always had one major limitation: stairs. If you live in a multi-story home, you’ve either had to carry your ...

Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been ...

Snow looks simple. For robots, it is anything but. Cold temperatures strain batteries and sensors. Snow density changes by the hour. Wet snow behaves ...

If you’ve ever found yourself without a partner for a game of pingpong, you might be excited to hear that technology has come to the rescue. Imagine having a robot that can rally with you, challenge ...

A tiny robot is making waves in marine research — by not making any waves at all. Swiss researchers recently created a game-changing robot inspired by the natural movement of marine flatworms. This ...

Will robots take over the world? Will our new machine overlords be generous gods or cruel taskmasters? A new research project isn’t going to answer these questions, but it aims to highlight how humans ...