Science fiction tends to project the present into the future, and so its predictions are often suspect. That’s why we’ll see people send faxes in future worlds imagined years ago, instead of beaming ...

Building a robot is hard. Teaching a robot is even harder. But teaching a robot to do your teaching for you might just be within the realm of possibility. If you're building a robot to perform a ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The disaster rescuer of the future looks a lot like the Terminator. On ...

Meet Q8bot, a palm-sized robot that resembles a miniaturized version of the famous Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped. Designed ...

The robots can even split in half to send each piece off on its own job, before bringing them back to merge together again. In more practical use cases, two small robots push an LED into place in an ...

This light-weight metallic backbone is at least three times lighter than conventional materials used to fabricate origami robots. It is also more power-efficient, enabling origami robots to work ...

”Short Circuit” is an obvious ”WarGames” ripoff in which a robot steals every scene from wooden performances by the always-too-eager-to-p lease Steve Guttenberg and the usually likable Ally Sheedy.