When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

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.

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of "RAnts" that mirror the self-organizing genius of ant colonies to build and ...

Vibration sensors can aid in stability and navigation, particularly for field robots in varied terrain, writes a columnist.

Microrobots have long promised precision drug delivery inside the human body, but making them practical has remained difficult. Many designs are complex, expensive to manufacture, or hard to control ...

Walker S2 is an adult-sized humanoid robot with legs, a torso, and arms. China is sending these robots to patrol their border ...

Robots typically excel at structured, repeatable tasks such as welding body panels together for cars or painting those vehicles. They've long struggled with more variable, less-structured work such as ...

UniX AI is testing its Panther robot in residential settings, where it cooks, organizes and cleans while navigating the ...

Until machines understand social context, they will struggle to operate naturally in the spaces humans actually live.​ ...