What just happened? Researchers from King's College London have figured out how to give robots complex instructions without using any electricity at all, not even through batteries. The key is a new ...

Bipedal (two-legged) robots are sophisticated machines, but they are not the most graceful when things go wrong. A simple ...

Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity for the first time which could free up more space in the robotic ‘brain’ for them to ‘think’. Mimicking how some ...

A team of Chinese researchers has stuck a tiny organoid made from human stem cells into the body of a tiny robot, resulting in a Frankensteinian creation that can learn how to complete certain tasks.

[Benjie Holson] is an experienced roboticist and wrote an interesting article published on IEEE Spectrum about how the idea most people have of non-roboticists is a myth, and efforts to target this ...

The big picture: While companies continue to improve robotic hardware, developing AI software to truly bring these machines to life has remained an elusive goal. This is especially disappointing given ...

Google is only the latest to fuse large language models with robots. The trend has big implications. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...