What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Robotics Initiative program, the team’s goal is to develop what they call “cobots,” or robots that can work collaboratively and ...

Miniaturization offers robotics designers new levels of power efficiency, nimbleness, and precision for a range of ...

Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU ...

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The door opens to reveal furious activity ...

Bipedal (two-legged) robots are sophisticated machines, but they are not the most graceful when things go wrong. A simple ...

When the San Francisco-based startup first launched, its team was drawn to the challenges and opportunities that kitchen ...

Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, is now on the path to becoming its first trillionaire. Tesla’s shareholders ...