Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

The Jetsons spoiled us. Not just that it gave us great, wholesome entertainment on a Saturday morning, but it made us believe ...

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...

As robots enter hospitals and care facilities, questions remain about whether they actually make care easier for the people ...

Hauling a 44-pound backpack normally turns your legs into jelly and your feet into hamburger, but researchers at Southern University of Science and Technology just cracked that problem. Their ...

Robots are just about everywhere these days: circling the grocery store, cleaning the floor at the airport, making deliveries. Not to mention the robots on the assembly lines in factories. But how far ...

Japan’s bear problem continues, and the country is running out of the robot wolves that help keep them at bay. First released ...