It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Massachusetts robotics entrepreneurs focus on specialized machines, while West Coast companies pour billions into humanoid ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

What if a robot could handle cleaning, serving and even complex tasks around your home or workplace? That's exactly what X Square Robot hopes to deliver with its latest launch. The company just ...

Imagine that there's another oil spill along the lines of BP-in-the-Gulf. Imagine that our relief work following the disaster could be waged not just with human effort, but with technological ability ...

Beginning Sept. 30, the flamingo-pink food delivery robots you may have seen rolling along city sidewalks are set to get some competition. Los Angeles-based Serve Robotics plans to roll out “dozens” ...

If one key aim of AI is to replicate the human experience, then perhaps this gives our robot devices the desire not just to excel, but to experience the joy of a holiday – leaving home to explore new ...