Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.

How to Build an Empathetic Robot Before we can share our lives with machines, we must teach them to understand and mimic human emotion ...

The robot can perform every individual step of the experiments, including weighing out solids, dispensing liquids, shining lights, running the reactions, and measuring the hydrogen output.

Published in Nature on Wednesday, the team designed a robot that was capable of rapidly performing chemistry experiments up to 1,000 times faster than its human counterparts.

Scientists have designed a new robot chemist to help make discoveries in the lab, but they say it won't be replacing humans anytime soon.

Increasingly, researchers are looking to nature to provide guidance on how to make better robots. In fact, another group from UVA presented their tuna robot in Science Robotics in 2019.

In this excerpt from Science Friday, Mark Riedl discusses how his research group uses a program called Quixote to teach robots morality and etiquette. As humans get closer and closer to developing ...

Humans may possess three levels of consciousness, and this concept could help scientists develop robots that are truly conscious, a new study suggests.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a 10-hour timelapse of Dextre, a handy Canadian robot, working with a science experiment on the ISS.

Looking to help develop a child's STEM skills? A great start to inspire creativity is to find and build the top robot kits.

For this project I show how to make make a pendulum wave, an interesting science/physics experiment where a series of pendulums is measured so that each one moves slightly faster than the one ...