Banking on the idea that helper robots will be as ubiquitous in homes and offices as they are today in factories, Evolution Robotics has raised almost $14 million to continue developing both software ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

So, here's how you go about evolving robots. First, buy a fancy computer and set up a virtual world that mimics the real world with the laws of physics - gravity and such -- programmed into it. You ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

IRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) is buying rival Evolution Robotics, maker of the Mint and Mint Plus floor-cleaning robots, for $74M in cash. IRobot claims the deal, which might raise some antitrust concerns, is ...

The AI-designed robot has three legs, rear fins, a flat face and is riddled with holes — something a human engineer would never conceive. Inventor of xenobots unveils new advance toward artificial ...