Robots

There's more to replacing human riders than just using cool tech, as the advancement helps solve a serious human rights issue.

ByChris Opfer

How can you keep motors from overheating without bulky fans and cooling systems? Engineers looked to the human body for inspiration.

ByPatrick J. Kiger

The android known as FEDOR used pistols to display its decision making and dexterity, officials said, not as a preview of robot warfare.

ByPatrick J. Kiger

A new application called Statcheck is bringing some academics a lot closer to AI. Not everyone's a fan.

ByKate Kershner

What are the benefits of growing living tissue in a lab and fusing it to a robotic body? This Fw:Thinking video explores our cyborg future.

ByLaurie L. Dove

A robot to simulate mudskipper locomotion gives scientists a look into the success of the first land vertebrate ancestors, and points to our future on other planets.

ByJesslyn Shields

我们教的机器做决定,但we haven't been paying as much attention to how and why they're learning.

ByPatrick J. Kiger

Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey' premiered 50 years ago, and it got a lot of things right. But what about HAL? How close are we to those kinds of capabilities?

ByOisin Curran

Well, heck yeah, we can, and we have. Let's take a look.

ByRobert Lamb

Created for social purposes, it’s meant to act as a virtual presence, helping keep far-off relatives and late-working parents connected to their families. What is it? A robot called the ConnectR.

ByJosh Clark

Robot armies could soon account for up to one third of all vehicles currently in service. Learn about robot armies and robot army development.

ByJonathan Strickland

机器人有一个徽章吗?警察机器人不再是stuff of sci-fi movies like "RoboCop." Some cities are using robots to patrol beats, although they're more commonly used in dangerous scenarios.

ByJonathan Strickland

You've just been diagnosed with cancer. You prepare yourself for chemotherapy -- losing your hair and getting weaker by the day. But your doctor has something else in mind.

ByJonathan Strickland

A female Android designed to look like a 20-something Korean woman is capable of making facial expressions and holding a simple conversation.

ByCameron Lawrence

It walks, it talks and it works as a receptionist. Honda engineers have been busy creating the ASIMO robot for more than 20 years, and it shows.

ByLee Ann Obringer&Jonathan Strickland

If we're ever going to live in a world in which machines behave like people, we humans have some teaching to do. But as this writing robot attests, we're not as far away as you might think.

ByWilliam Harris

Robots continue to work their way into every aspect of our lives, but these advancements aren't self-sustaining. The fields of robotics, engineering and science depend on a steady pipeline of young minds. And that's where FIRST comes in.

ByMarshall Brain&Robert Lamb

A new robot is on the market that celebrates all things dinosaurs. Based on a Camarasaurus, Pleo goes through different stages of life -- hatching, infancy, adulthood -- just as a real dinosaur would.

ByTracy V. Wilson

So you like to complain about your demonic boss, moronic co-workers and fancy company coffee machine that never, ever works? You need to zip it and meet these 10 hard-working bots. They could tell you stories.

ByRobert Lamb

Got $15? You could build a Kilobot. Got $150? You could build 10 of these small bots, which might make you a robot master.

ByMarianne Spoon

A Google engineer made headlines for claiming that an AI called LaMDA had become sentient or conscious. While many AI scientists disagreed, what would it take for an AI to ever become sentient?

ByChris Pollette

Could a computer chip implanted in our brains make the necessity of actually learning anything, like a language, obsolete because knowledge will be available for streaming 24/7?

ByPatrick J. Kiger

Computer-generated artificial celebrities, created with cutting-edge technology, have become some of the hottest social media stars on the planet, selling everything from insurance to perfume.

ByPatrick J. Kiger

Is ChatGPT the end of education as we know it, or just the beginning?

ByJesslyn Shields

Maillardet's Automaton, built around 1800, can write poems and draw pictures and was a precursor to today's sophisticated robots.

ByPatrick J. Kiger