It's fitting that a writer, not a scientist, coined the term for the autonomous machines that have gripped the collective imaginations of various cultures for millennia. The word robot comes from ...

So says the most recent edition of the "Handbook of Industrial Robotics," complete with a forward by late science fiction writer Isaac Asimov and contributions from 120 experts, some of them giants in ...

Present-day robotics hasn’t turned out quite as the futurists intended: for better or worse, we don’t live in a world of robot butlers and Skynet. This ten-minute history of robotics does a nice job ...

Ever wondered how, exactly, Pittsburgh became a leading city for robotics? A new exhibition in town has the answer. The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries recently opened an exhibition taking a look ...

History is also littered with examples of complex automata designed to wow audiences with their life-like movements. But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his ...

Skills study The childlike iCub is a robot designed to explore whether human-like cognition is predicated on having a physical body. (Courtesy: Massimo Brega, The Lighthouse/Science Photo Library) ...