If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Robots are starting to gain something that looks a lot like a sense of touch, and in some cases even a crude version of pain.

China has developed a neuromorphic electronic skin that lets robots feel touch, detect injury, and react to pain with ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming ...

Under the cover of darkness, a robotic lawnmower quietly sweeps across the grass at the Bend RV Resort near Murphy Road in Bend. As it mows, mulches and moves across the lawn, the innovative mower ...

Ground Control Robotics (GCR) Inc., a startup company seeking to commercialize a centipede-like robot developed at Georgia Institute of Technology, may be on the verge of acquiring its first customers ...

The new robots, drones and other technology tools filling the country’s distribution centers are finding one thing all too difficult to reach: a fast and reliable internet connection. Robots that ...

When a robotics startup says it’s going into production, it usually leads to a shiny hype demo video, followed by a pilot ...

WASHINGTON - Three new robots can walk much like a parent, child and toddler strolling through Central Park, and one requires only about the same amount of human energy to do so. No one would mistake ...