It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design everything from the robot’s arms and legs to its wheels and joints. They ...

Social robots are back on the menu as new devices are debuting at the world’s largest trade show, CES 2026. Ollobot is a cyber-pet engineered for bringing interaction and emotional presence for a ...

Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

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Adult Swim has been home to several iconic TV series over the years, but when it comes to riffing on pop culture, nothing compares to Robot Chicken. The legendary stop-motion animated series has been ...

A sensational pregnancy robot story spread fast, but it wasn’t true. Here’s what’s fake, what’s real, and how far science has actually come.GuyXotic/Pixel Dojo Earlier this month, the claim that a ...

Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far ...

Failing to take the robotics race seriously means watching Beijing set the rules of the automated economy, and risks leaving American power to rust. China commands two-thirds of global robotics ...

From Balto to Blizzard, robots roam campus—with more to come. Because Huskies can't get enough of drones, droids, and everything in between. With multiple robotics courses now being offered and a new ...

Scientists have trained the ANYmal quadruped robot to play badminton, and it's good enough to complete in a 10-shot rally with a human opponent. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet. With the help of their feet, the rice grain–sized ripple bugs can make sharp turns in just 50 milliseconds and move up to 120 body lengths ...

James Pikul receives funding from the Office of Naval Research. He is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Metal Light Inc. Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in ...