Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

Asimov's 3 laws of robotics were theoretical. These new 24 laws of robots and AI are very real ... but it's unclear how ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

This simple robot, which responds to light and avoids obstacles, can be built without using a microcontroller, programmer or PC. The only ‘special’ component in the circuit is a window discriminator ...

Robotics companies often have to deal with a simple but confounding problem: Robots produce a lot of data. Even a simple robot can easily produce up to a terabyte of data per day, since they ...

Tesla recently released a new viral video featuring its humanoid robot, Optimus. Unlike the earlier clips, this time, Optimus tackled everyday household tasks. It’s a simple demonstration, but one ...

Insect-scale legged robots have become increasingly capable in recent years but are still severely limited in terms of onboard resources for computation and power. On the other hand, simple models for ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has slammed Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk, as well as Microsoft Corp. MSFT co-founder Bill Gates, ...