The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as we know it, including amino acids, according to long-awaited research ...

It isn’t any wonder why there’s a demand for both wet and dry vacuums and the best robot mops to get the job done. Not only do the former have the suction power of the best vacuum cleaners ...

Parenting isn’t easy — whether you’re a top-of-the-line robot or an Oscar-nominated composer. It’s a lesson Lupita Nyong’o’s Roz learns the hard way in “The Wild Robot,” DreamWorks ...

But in the last few years, they’ve developed a new trick for turning back time and studying prehistoric animals: building experimental robotic models of them. In the absence of a living specimen ...

Ice-melting probes, also known as cryobots, are specialized robotic devices designed to penetrate ice and explore subglacial environments, such as lakes beneath Antarctica or potentially habitable ...

Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction.

Researchers from the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have successfully developed the world's smallest multifunctional biomedical robot ...

Two new videos from Chinese companies make it clear: it'll soon be no use trying to run from robots. Rapid upgrades in speed and agility mean robot dogs can now sprint at near-Olympic pace ...

China’s fast-growing humanoid robotics industry is set to establish its first foothold in Central Asia, after a Shanghai-based start-up agreed a deal with Kazakhstan to partner on a series of ...

In the race to build the best humanoid robots, China is quite literally ahead of the pack. As the South China Morning Post reports, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area — or E ...