Reading classic science fiction can be a frustrating experience, particularly if you're old enough to remember when everything seemed possible. Now, after fifty years, we know the moon landing hasn't ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

For years, I've watched capable engineers explain exactly how a robot should behave to solve their problems, then get told they need to hire a specialist to implement it. A facilities manager who ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design ...

A Connecticut library has acquired two fully-automated, walking, talking robots to provide independent assistance to its patrons. The robots, set to begin their duties at the Westport, Conn., library ...