Mantis shrimp eyes are unlike those observed in any other animal, both mechanically and optically, leading researchers to wonder how they could spur technological advancement.
Research findings suggest that workers in counties facing higher levels of automation risk reported more frequent levels of physical and mental distress.
Robots from the company Kuka serve non-alcoholic beer during the Hannover Fair on April 23rd, 2018, in Hanover, Germany.
Researchers are hoping to discover new travel routes of the Pacific humpback by utilizing a robot that monitors their unique means of long-distance communication.
It sounds like the plot of science-fiction movie, but academics have long debated the possibility of conscious artificial intelligence.
If care jobs become the last human jobs, could that encourage employers and policymakers to recognize and value them as the economically critical work that they are?
Does the fawning media coverage of new technological advancements in human exoskeleton design invalidate the lives of millions of wheelchair-dependent people around the world?
After leaving Serbia for the United States as a teenager, Maja Mataric became one of the world's top robotics experts. She tells Noah Davis how and why it happened.
A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.
An army of insect-sized robot rescuers may some day help save lives after a disaster.
In the minor leagues of the tech world, homemade robots duke it out in the bowels of the San Mateo fairgrounds.
How hard is it to design a humanlike robot? Harvard's Steven Pinker highlights how simple human accomplishments represent formidable robotics challenges.
Jules Jaffe of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is developing an army of underwater explorers that researchers hope will produce a fine-grained, real-time map of the movements of the sea.
Industry might seem like a universal language, but how different cultures are husbanding their robots shows there are several dialects.
Researchers are using cockroaches as inspiration for robots that run.
Scientists are adapting the gecko's 'sticky feet' to create bonding materials for sporting equipment and robots.
It's awards season in the academic publishing world, too.
A comprehensive new robotics handbook raises the question: Will we take these machines into our everyday lives? A Miller-McCune interview of the University of Naples' Bruno Siciliano.