The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in liquid for months. Inside this speck is a functioning computer, a sensor, and ...

Scientists with the San Francisco Estuary Institute are deploying robotic stormwater samplers in creeks to track pollutants ...

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stranger Thing: Scientists build robot hand that can go walkabout like Addams Family character. Swiss scientists have developed a ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

Nils J. Nilsson, a computer scientist who helped develop the first general purpose robot and was a co-inventor of algorithms that made it possible for the machine to move about efficiently and perform ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

AI-controlled robots could automate simple tasks, but scientists say lab work still needs a human touch. Plus, a glass tile that can store terabytes of data and how service-dog trainers are using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...