Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to communicate like ...

Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

In 1982, personal computers were beige, boxy, and built for engineers. They were powerful, but uninviting. Few people knew what they were for, or why they might need one. It took more than just better ...

Japanese firms Toshiba and MIRISE Technologies have demonstrated a breakthrough in autonomous mobility. The ...

At CES 2026, robotics usually falls into two categories, expensive humanoids designed for factories, or novelty toys. And there were many toys. It’s an obvious early application of LLMs and computer ...

While wandering through the Computer Zone May 4 at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival, be on the lookout for any pesky, Nerf-dart-shooting robots. Faculty and students in RIT’s ...

Professor Boyuan Chen poses with some of his 3D printed robots that were designed and built through his new platform called Text2Robot that allows people to simply tell a computer what kind of robot ...

Japan's leading mobile operator and global research institute for haptics announce what they call world's first stable, ...

Developed by Professor Sam Kriegman, AI-designed metamachines can run in the wild, recover from damage, and transform into new shapes.