UC San Diego engineers create a soft vine robot that twists through arteries and jet engines with liquid crystal skin.

Named Elf V1, the advanced bionic humanoid robot can perceive the world, communicate, learn, and interact intelligently with ...

In general, regular vacuums perform better on carpet than on hard floors. But Roomba inverted that relationship. Our vacuum ...

A new game by Neal Agarwal called wants you to prove you’re human by solving 48 increasingly difficult CAPTCHA puzzles.

The PUMA 560 robot performed a neurosurgical biopsy on a real patient in 1985—no small feat back then. Only a few years later ...

There's a new robot vacuum in town and this one packs a whole load of neat gadgets into one sleek-looking package. It vacuums, it mops, it maps your house and it empties itself, to name a few features ...

Robotics companies often have to deal with a simple but confounding problem: Robots produce a lot of data. Even a simple robot can easily produce up to a terabyte of data per day, since they ...

This guy makes R2D2 look cuddly. A child-sized robot with dreams of being a doctor is working its way up the ranks at a Big Apple vein treatment clinic — and might one day be the one wielding the ...

Scientists have designed swarms of microscopic robots that communicate and coordinate using sound waves, much like bees or birds. These self-organizing micromachines can adapt to their surroundings, ...

A new study led by Penn State researchers shows for the first time how sound waves could function as a means of controlling micro-sized robots. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Animals like bats, whales and ...

I spent most of spring and a good chunk of summer turning my backyard into a parking lot to test the best robot lawn mowers. In the process of doing that, I learned a lot about their benefits and ...