Not only are there lots of consumer uses for these four-legged machines, but they're finding their way into military ...

A NEW TWIST ON AN OLD TEST. People are likely to perform better cognitively when under the supervision of a “mean” robot than a “nice” one, according to a study published in Science Robotics on ...

Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.

Many robots today are able to follow verbal instructions. However, the robot first has to be programmed with software code that allows it to respond to those instructions in some predetermined way, ...

It’s long after the final bell has rung at Glover Middle School and all the students have gone home for the day, but a recent addition to the school is just beginning its solitary job cleaning its ...

For a half-century, the image of the large, six-axis articulated robot welding car and truck bodies has become fixed in the popular imagination. Robots are used in sectors as diverse as healthcare, ...

Moscow -- Russian media say a contraption presented by Russian state television as a high-tech robot was in fact a man in a commercially available robot costume. The video was shot at a high-tech show ...

The simple cucumber may be delicious on a salad or in a sandwich, but getting it to the table is a labor-intensive and increasingly expensive job, to the point where countries like Germany are in ...

It's hard not to like BattleBots. It is essentially a modern technology-based sporting event in which teams build remote controlled robot-like things that fight in an arena. Two robots enter, one ...