A field called swarm robotics is taking inspiration from ants, bees and even slime molds.

Have you ever wanted to wipe down a table hundreds of times while Elon Musk watches? Training Tesla's humanoid robot might be ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while ...

Giving a robotic assistant a broad-based understanding of how to be helpful at home or work isn’t easy. But Google researchers are making progress. I’m standing in a kitchenette at a Google office in ...

Robot sporting events could become more common in the coming years. But how many of us will be tuning in to watch?

A recent study presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Robotic Learning examines a new method for teaching robots how to ask for further instructions when carrying out tasks with the goal of ...

We can’t get enough of robots, and we now envision endless uses for them. The next step is to get them out of labs, factories, warehouses, and so on and use them in outdoor environments. And that’s ...

Okay, this story is Tom bait. As regular readers of this Blog know, I am all about the coming robot revolution. Why am I all about it? Because it’s coming and we’re not getting ready. Smart, dexterous ...

Danielle Boyer realized at age 10 that the kids in her Ojibwe community weren’t learning about their own Indigenous culture and history. Oftentimes, schools only teach about colonial settlers’ ...

Politeness doesn’t really amount to much when you’re programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely ...