Humans didn't design these robots; they were “evolved” inside a computer. The results are strange, wildly flipping spider-like machines – and that's exactly what the researchers were hoping for. If ...

Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came across an unusual but well-designed robot at a secondhand shop. The ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to TrendForce research, the global smart manufacturing market will reach US$620 billion by 2026. Amongst the new technologies used in the burgeoning smart ...

Researchers at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, alongside collaborators from the University of Michigan, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a preprint paper, a Google and MIT team investigate whether pretrained ...

“Will robots need rights?” is like asking “Will robots be Jewish? Environmentalist? Libertarian?” At first such questions seem silly. Like all machines, robots will be whatever we make them. If robot ...

Chinese cloud giant Alibaba Cloud has developed a thin-client PC that will alleviate the need for powerful desktop hardware to perform compute-intensive tasks. Dubbed the cloud computer, the ...

Robots can follow commands, but they still fail at recognizing a mistake before it ...

Imagine playing a video game bundled with a tangible robot that rolls around on your carpet. Sounds unbelievable, but Sony Computer Entertainment filed a patent application for just that in June of ...

RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms with ...

Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the agricultural industry. Some benefits they have over outdoor farms include the ...