Although you might mistake it for a toy, this robot is actually a lot smarter than it seems. So smart, in fact, that it can learn how to move faster, in a specific direction, without having prior ...

Robots are creeping farther into our lives each month. Kickstarter right now is packed with more than 1,100 projects that aim to build robot bartenders, robot gardeners and even a 15-foot robot clone ...

Once the stuff of science fiction, robots that move and look like humans are becoming a reality. Makers of these so-called humanoid robots tout a range of possible uses, including filling jobs in ...

Robots of the entertainment industry are given life by character animation, where the goal is to emotionally connect with the audience to tell a story. In comparison, real-world robot movement design ...

The Arduino is a cheap, fun way to get into building your own electronics. It can also be daunting to get started. Here, we’ll show you how to get a start-to-finish Arduino primer with a killer ...

Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics—constraints on the behavior of androids and automatons meant to ensure the safety of humans—were also famously incomplete. The laws, which first appeared ...

The Future of Life Institute has issued a petition to pause the development of GPT-5 and similar Large Language Models (LLMs). Their anxieties are understandable, but I believe they are much overblown ...

The researchers detailed their findings in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. "Like humans learning to dance by ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful. Isaac Asimov’s famous Three ...