There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

An insect-scale robot that jumps using only light has completed 188 continuous leaps without ...

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, ...

What just happened? When engineers talk about soft robots, precision is usually the missing piece. The challenge has never been in making flexible machines – it's been in making them behave ...

People living in Chicago's Lakeview East neighborhood have been at the center of a delivery pilot program, and most of them aren't happy with the robots or in favor of expanding their footprint. At ...

A new methodology is helping robots to move its arms autonomously. Researchers combined a ...

Revel, a unified software platform for hardware test and control, today announced $150 million in Series B funding to accelerate its expansion across aerospace, defense, robotics, and industrial ...

Carey Business School experts Ritu Agarwal and Rick Smith share insights ahead of the latest installment of the Hopkins Forum, a conversation about AI and labor on Feb. 25 ...

In the new animated film, "Arco," a time-traveling boy gets trapped in the year 2075 and must evade captors, robots and wildfires. NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer and director Ugo Bienvenu.

The headlines are scary, reporting one round of mass layoffs after another from companies including Amazon, Microsoft, HP, General Motors, and UPS ...