The Best Articles in Robotics

Blinking conveys more information than you might think and it's hard to make robots do it properly.

A few years ago, humanoid robots were clumsy and awkward. Now several startups claim to have models almost ready to go to work in warehouses and factories.

The announcement of subterranean, burger-wielding robots comes after Wendy's announced it would test AI in its drive-thru.

Barbara Mazzolai’s roboplants could analyze and enrich soil, search for water and other chemicals, or even be used to grow infrastructure from scratch.

Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs

Hemgenix's list price will be $3.5 million, the highest cost yet for a single-dose drug.

Watching robots operate with speed and precision is always impressive, if not, at this point, always surprising. Sophisticated sensors and fast computing means that a powerful and agile robot, like a drone, that knows exactly where it is and exactly where it’s going can reliably move in highly dynam

It’s no point getting frustrated with AI when it doesn’t do what we expect it to. Instead, we should focus on the ways it can help and support people.

«The idea that we’re dealing with a different kind of intelligence inspires us to leverage this technology to support people – rather than replacing them.»

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture a…

Do efforts to create life—by cooking up imitations in computers, robots and molecules—point toward a universal definition of biology?

The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ...

«The consequences of human irresponsibility in terms of waste and pollution will become more apparent and unbearable with time and again, attempts to deal with this will become more strenuous. It is to be hoped that by 2019, advances in technology will place tools in our hands that will help accelerate the process whereby the deterioration of the environment will be reversed.»

On January 1st, 2018, I made predictions about self driving cars, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, and about progress in the space industry. Those predictions had dates attached to them…

Automation helped bring on the age of Trump. What will AI bring?

Asimov's famous Three Laws of robotics are considered in the use case of self-driving cars, and found to be aspirational but not ironclad.