Plus, the researchers have been running the robot in a slow mode out of safety considerations for the humans working around it—they figure they can get the picking time down to 15 seconds ...

Amazon’s cute little Astro robot has been scurrying its way around my apartment for the past few weeks. It has no arms to scratch its own head in confusion, but I am willing to do that for him ...

Japanese toymaker Take-G Toys make a set of spectacular wooden robots figures that beat the pants off the lousy wooden Russian dolls we got as kids. Each one contains some robots, some flying ...

Once Drive launched in 2013, work on the little robot began in earnest. Anki's first Cozmo hire was Andrew Stein, another Carnegie Mellon PhD (this is a recurring theme), to work on computer vision.

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals The self-organized movement of the little scamps gives insight into how microbes navigate.

You control the robot's actions directly using the joystick on your screen, or select preprogrammed actions like a figure eight or a little dance. A coding mode lets you program simple movement ...

Sphero’s cute car-shaped robot is driven to teach kids about programming. ... MIT’s Scratch programming language gives students a playground to figure out how computers use logic, ...

A group of scientists asks participants in a study to perform a simple task. Switch off Nao, the cute, human-like robot in front of you. Just turn it off.