Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They’re being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck — all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt ...

Zendaya’s seemingly futuristic body armor actually has a long history steeped in cinema and pop culture. At the root of it all is the likeness to the female robot, often called “Maria,” in Fritz ...

Engineers have created a new type of robot that places living fungi behind the controls. The biohybrid robot uses electrical signals from an edible type of mushroom called a king trumpet in order to ...

Some researchers question whether A.I. can be truly intelligent without a body to interact with and learn from the physical world. Embodied, a start-up based in Pasadena, Calif., has designed what the ...

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the ...

A team of AI and robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, working with a pair of colleagues from technology company NVIDIA, has developed a new model for training robots to move like human ...