A four-foot-tall machine just completed a grueling autonomous trek in sub-zero temperatures. Here is how this breakthrough could change the future.

“Looking Back to Move Forward / A Re:collection of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon,” which is also available virtually, traces the history of robotics from early snake bots to some of the first autonomous ...

What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) moves from painting portraits to designing homes? That question is no longer theoretical. At the Utzon Center in Denmark, Ai-Da Robot, the world's first ...

Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

Exactly one hundred years ago, a play premiered that introduced a significant new word to the world – robot. When the first production of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. opened on January 25, 1921, at the ...

Atlas Shrugged may be the name of Ayn Rand’s veritable doorstop of a novel, but no-one is shrugging indifferently when it comes to Boston Dynamic’s amazing Atlas robot. For the past five years, Atlas ...

George Jetson did not want his family to adopt a dog. For the patriarch of the futuristic family in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, apartment living in the age of flying cars and cities in the sky was ...