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Numerous law enforcement agencies and even a state patrol helicopter contributed to the search — but it was a heat-seeking drone operated by a local photographer that led to the boy’s rescue, 10 hours after he went missing.

Have you noticed that lots of robots include polyurethane parts? Here are some of the reasons why robot designers are using this material.

A study published on Tuesday found that 88 percent of Chinese workers have more trust in robots than their human managers and believe AI is unbiased.

Newme the telepresence robot could replace the need for air travel one day.

A robodog does a push-up every time the Virginia Tech football team scores a touchdown, putting a high-tech twist on an old college tradition.

Chowbotics continues to expand deployments of its Sally robot, which provides customized salads, bowls and breakfast options for colleges and hospitals.

The MIT team behind BILL-E describes it as a 'relative robot.'

It follows you around with your stuff, like a little robot butler

One of the major challenges facing engineers as they develop more agile robots is helping them move through space while avoiding collisions, especially in a dynamic environment. Realtime Robotics, a Boston-based startup, announced an $11.7 million Series A investment to help solve this problem. SPAR...

In certain scenarios, A.I. algorithms can outperform humans at identifying certain emotions, such as happiness and sadness, by looking at faces. Here is why that matters -- and what it means for the way that we will interact with machines (and vice versa) in the future.

The U.K. is sending a space exploration rover to the moon, in what will be a first for the country.

It may not be a laundry-folding robot, but this robotic launders line build by [Radical Brad Graham] is pretty neat. He has a 75-foot hanging laundry line from his house to a woodshed, and decided t

Artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in its quest to build general purpose, self-learning robots. The group’s robotics division says that Dactyl, its humanoid robotic hand first developed last year, has learned to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed.

“We would like to make robots that can walk or run like animals or like humans,” said the engineer in charge of the machine.

Healthcare is a new hotbed of automation, and this robot is officially out of beta.

When Cogo Guebara pressed a button on a robot to call the police, she was instead instructed to "step out of the way."

Talking Mabu robot provides one-to-one support while relaying information to doctors.

In what is likely the final nail in the coffin, Waymo has hired 13 former Anki employees, including Co-Founder and CEO Boris Sofman. According to Sofman’s LinkedIn profile, he is now Director of Engineering, Head of Trucking, Waymo. Sofman wrote about the news in a LinkedIn post called “A New Advent...

A woman tried to call for help via a Knightscope security robot covered in "police" markings, just to be told to step aside.

Google Brain and UC Berkeley researchers teamed up to make the ROBEL robotics platform and benchmark for two robots that cost less than $4,000.

Teams start competing Tuesday in the Drone Racing League's new battle of autonomous drones. Here's an exclusive first look at the AI-powered flying machine.

Around the world, 2 billion people eat insects regularly. In the US and Europe? Not so much. But some entrepreneurs think it’s time. We take a tour of the startup cricket farms that are trying to kick-start a new industry, and sample some insect snacks ourselves.

If there was an emergency and you saw a police robot patrolling the area, a reasonable person would expect that simply pushing its emergency alert button would call for help. That’s what a California woman reportedly tried to do. In reality, the robot told her to get out of the way and carried on wi...