Yet the next generation of robots will soon be able to learn from experience, creating more adaptable machines—perfect for the home and the factory, according to speakers at Fortune's Brainstorm AI.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

This video shows how to build a robot using simple high school math, breaking down complex ideas into clear, practical steps.

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

Robotics companies often have to deal with a simple but confounding problem: Robots produce a lot of data. Even a simple robot can easily produce up to a terabyte of data per day, since they ...

I’ve been interested in robotics since I was a little boy. Back when I was in junior high school, I built a mobile robot platform out of the drive portion of a child’s motorized car and a Commodore ...

A developer who writes all the software would need expertise in real-time programming, motor control, AI, maybe some image and video processing, and so on. Fortunately, platforms like ROS (Robot ...

“Both my dad and mom had their own business,” Ally Robotics founder and CEO Mitch Tolson tells TechCrunch. “My mom had a sign company. Every single weekend and nights during the week, I was installing ...

Insect-scale legged robots have become increasingly capable in recent years but are still severely limited in terms of onboard resources for computation and power. On the other hand, simple models for ...