Ever wanted to build a robot? Trick question. Everybody wants to build a robot. Since the dawn of man, it’s been our mission to create untethered beauty and then immediately subjugate it to our ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

Just as we and many animals—including cephalopods—learn at a young age how to control our limbs, so, too, will these soft-bodied robots.

Newly developed robotic kits with legs, inspired from animal movement, constitute off-the-shelf solutions for scientist who need to model movement Robots are usually thought off as devices to ...

New ‘Paleo-Robots’ Could Shed Light on Animal Evolution, Revealing How Some Fish Evolved to ‘Walk’ on Land A team of roboticists, paleontologists and biologists are building robots to ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are looking into how to make robots that can run faster than animals.

How to build an ancient robot overlord I took inspiration from the past for my new novel about robots, The Clockwork Dynasty.

Here’s our soft robot hand in action: This article was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Wave Hello To A Soft Robot Hand.” ...