The Apple TV+ series concluding its first season on Friday is the latest show to ponder how technology affects our lives, but ...

Robots.txt just turned 30 – cue the existential crisis! Like many hitting the big 3-0, it’s wondering if it’s still relevant in today’s world of AI and advanced search algorithms. Spoiler ...

Shanghai engineers are using 432 walking robots to relocate a complex, preserving Shikumen architecture while creating space ...

Modern robots are remarkably good at moving. Thanks to decades of research in biomechanics, motor control and actuation, machines such as Boston Dynamics’ Spot and Atlas can walk, run and climb ...

The word “robot” was not used in literature until 1920, when Czech playwright Karel Capek wrote the play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) that debuted a year later and made it to New York ...

Robots in 2024 are far more complex than their single-armed factory-working predecessors. Modern robots can run, jump, do the splits, and even hold down a basic conversation.At the same, despite ...

In nature, animals don’t recharge, they eat. Food is converted into energy through digestion, circulation and respiration. Fat stores that energy, blood moves it and muscles use it. Future robots ...

This robot, which weighs just 18 grams (less than an ounce), is inspired by rhinoceros beetles. Also developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, it can deploy its wings to fly ...

Technological advancements are constantly changing sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no different. While innovations like the Haber-Bosch process and the cotton gin forever changed the ...

Robots move well but run out of steam. Modern robots are remarkably good at moving. Thanks to decades of research in biomechanics, motor control, and actuation, machines such as Boston Dynamics ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year ...

Modern robots are remarkably good at moving. Thanks to decades of research in biomechanics, motor control and actuation, machines such as Boston Dynamics’ Spot and Atlas can walk, run and climb ...