Coming from a lab in France is The Poppy Project, an open source humanoid robot that’s at least as cool as ASIMO. Poppy was designed as an affordable bipedal robot for use in education and art.

For a few years now I’ve been developing an interactive army of delta robots ... making the user feel extremely cool for a minute, I guess you’d call it art. In the past I’ve held a ...

A robot art critic — complete with a bowler hat and scarf — is strolling the galleries of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris and forming his own opinions about what's good and what's bad.

Marine flatworms have perfected smooth, undulating motion over millions of years of evolution. Now, scientists have taken inspiration to create a highly agile robot.