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From motion-sensing plants to a Venus Flytrap you control using a computer interface, Harpreet Sareen is the brains behind a weird field called Cyborg Botany. Here's why he believes that it matters -- and what we can expect from this fast-growing (literally) area in the future.

The list of robots in sports is surprisingly long and diverse. There are robot skiers, tumblers, soccer players, sumos, and even robot game jockeys.

At the start of 2019, supermarket chain Giant Food Stores announced it would begin operating customer-assisting robots -- collectively dubbed Marty -- in 17

After training to hand-write Japanese characters, the robot could then copy words in Hindi, Greek, and English just by looking at examples.

Robots that run on batteries rather than polluting small gas engines can mow your lawn while cutting out emissions. And a Swedish company just came out with a four-wheel-drive unit.

An MIT robot collaborates with a person by tracking his or her muscles.

Since the 80s, fighting games have been a raucous good time, a way to blow off some steam while digitally beating an AI opponent to smithereens. In the VR world though, these same characters might one day fight back — physically. James Bruton, a robotics engineer and YouTube creator, teamed up with ...

To test its strength, Italian researchers tasked a four-legged robot to pull an aircraft many times its weight.

Cambridge Consultants has unveiled a new gripping robot that uses soft air-filled fingers guided by an embedded sense of touch.

UC Berkeley's Salto robot is fast, agile, and smart — traits that would make the bot terrifying if it weren't less than a foot tall.

Agility Robotics’ Digit will bring packages from a delivery vehicle to your front door

Farmers hope machines can be more precise and efficient than humans

German startup Lilium has developed an air taxi capable of seating five people — and after two years of development, the craft finally took flight.

MIT robot killing that previous world record by spinning a solution in .38 seconds.

NASA's Swamp Works may be humans' best hope for figuring out how to live and work on other planets.

New technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and machine learning, may represent a tipping point, leading to faster and broader change than in the past.

​We've seen a few impressive drones now that can adapt themselves to different modes of transport. Equally so is a new quadcopter developed at Israel's Ben-Gurion University, which flies like a regular quadcopter but turns its propellor arms into wheels to keep moving once it hits the ground. ​

Robots can be instrumental in providing security personnel with another set of eyes and ears in many locations and notify them of events.

A new robot called Doggo can walk, jump, and even do backflips. You can download everything you need to build your own, too.

Columnist Kayla Matthews looks at six robotics applications and how developers should understand the similarities and differences among them.

Throughout MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty members have been finding new ways to incorporate 3-D printing across a vast array of research areas. New techniques promise to help solve the biggest problems of the 21st century.

Computer scientists have taught an artificial intelligence agent how to do something that usually only humans can do -- take a few quick glimpses around and infer its whole environment, a skill necessary for the development of effective search-and-rescue robots that one day can improve the effective...

BURTON — Sloan Museum visitors can explore the biomechanics of complex animal robots to discover how real animals work at the newest traveling exhibit, The Robot Zoo. The traveling exhibit, created by Evergreen Exhibitions, is open now through Sept. 8, at Sloan Museum's Courtland Center Mall locatio...

The current wave of excitement around machine learning kicked off when graphics processors were repurposed to make training deep neural networks practical. Nvidia found themselves the engine of a ne