Controlling sensori-motor systems in higher animals or complex robots is a challenging combinatorial problem, because many sensory signals need to be simultaneously coordinated into a broad ...

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

Scientists have developed a new system that allows people with no coding experience to teach robots simple tasks, such as grabbing an object and dropping it into a bucket. The system aims to mimic how ...

I spent many weeks testing robot lawn mowers. While they saved me a lot of time, they're not as automated as I hoped. Here are six things that surprised me the most. Adam has been a leader in the tech ...

Imagine a team of workers that can tirelessly build and rebuild complicated structures even under daunting and dangerous conditions. They already exist – they’re called termites. Now, inspired by ...

Physicists in France have come up with a new and simple way of propelling objects through a viscous fluid. They say that the technique could someday be used to create tiny swimming robots for ...

[Will] from Revolt Lab needed a project to get the summer campers he supervises interested in electronics, but when your audience is 5 years old, your subject matter had better be simple, yet ...

Robots make everything look easy, but there's actually a lot of work going on under the hood to make even simple tasks happen. But through impeccable design, practice, and some good programming, they ...