The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned ...

Alan Tudyk voiced the robot Sonny in "I, Robot" and used motion capture to deliver his performance in the summer blockbuster. But he says his role in the film was largely forgotten in the publicity ...

Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like autonomous creatures. Built from flexible materials and intricate channels, ...

A group of researchers in the UK has developed an unusual soft robot that moves without motors, joints, or hard components. Instead, it reacts to electric fields, allowing it to shift shape and move ...

Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We live in an age where a giant robot movie doesn’t seem all that special. Thanks to over a decade of Transformers movies and the ...

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming motors. In a new study from the University of Oxford, all of that ...

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, that would look like holding a ball in your palm while simultaneously ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Robots smaller than a grain of salt? It ...