BEIJING - Winking, grimacing or nodding their heads, robots mimicked the expressions of visitors at a robot expo in Beijing. They were among the creations dazzling people attending the annual World ...

Darting around the pool as a group of swimmers stands in the shallow end, the dolphin looks much like those that jump through hoops and perform acrobatics at theme parks.

Lifelike robots are two steps closer after one team found a new way to put computation into soft robotic materials and another found a way to untether their soft robot. There’s lots of interest in ...

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Researchers from Imperial College London and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology have proposed the combined discipline of "Physical AI" as a means for developing ...

Ever since robots were first introduced in Karel Čapek's 1920 play "Rossum's Universal Robots," we've imagined them as being nearly indistinguishable from biological life. Fiction is filled with all ...

Honeybees dance to direct hive mates to new food sources. Guppies negotiate leadership with their schoolmates. Flocks of homing pigeons take evasive action when a falcon attacks. Since the dawn of ...

Welcome to another edition of Robots Everywhere, a show where we chronicle the slow but steady takeover of our future robot overlords, and show how they’re making their way into practically every ...

A care home has introduced robotic dogs and cats to help ease loneliness among its residents. Stoneham Grove Care Home in Reading says the lifelike ‘pets’ — which bark, purr, and respond to touch — ...

What does a robotics company have to do with animal welfare? Plenty, according to the Scottish SPCA, an animal welfare organization that, as part of its mandate, runs a program called Prevention ...