A Parisian restaurant once promised a pizza experience unlike any other. Order your pizza and, within five minutes, a robot would craft your pie from scratch, no human hands required. This was the ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Sometimes robots make us feel uneasy because they make us think of death. Now, researchers are putting some real effort behind making our immortal creations feel a bit more alive. Humanlike robots can ...

More specifically, their hulls are made out of commercial fish feed pellets that have been ground into a powder, mixed with a biopolymer binder, poured into a boat-shaped mold, then freeze-dried. In ...

General Motors Co. worker Annie Ignaczak spent years walking in circles on concrete factory floors, assembling the same parts ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots may offer a unique kind of support in learning environments. For many children, ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

A breakthrough in medical technology could soon change how sinus infections are treated. Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate ...