Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

With the explosion in robotic technologies that has occurred in the past decade, it’s important to realize there are three categories of robots: industrial, commercial and consumer. Within each ...

A flock of seagulls. A school of fish. A gaggle of geese. Collective nouns in English are a lot of fun. However, when it comes to a collection of robots, we’re missing the mark, especially in the ...

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Mobile robots can dance around a stage, perform graceful acrobatics and even lift heavy objects. But if you watched them strut their stuff for an hour or two, you would see the robots grind to a halt.

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M3GAN’s creepy yet delightful dance has captivated the internet. So it’s no surprise that a niche research field dubbed choreorobotics has gained traction in recent years. Brown University even has an ...

If you want safe robots, then they need to talk to each other, explains a robotics innovator. What’s behind this counter-intuitive idea? In a world informed by sci-fi dystopias, the idea that a safe ...

It may sound like science fiction, but there are dozens of robots in real life, and you've likely encountered some. Check out the futuristic but totally real robots changing the world. Most people ...