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.

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 ...

Taking a cue from biological cells, researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed computationally simple robots that connect in large groups to move around, transport objects ...

More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, ...

Ask 100 robotics scientists why they’re inspired to create modern-day automatons and you may get 100 different answers. For a team at Harvard University, it’s termites. “Not the ones around here that ...

TuSimple is running its self-driving trucks around the clock hauling freight for UPS, McLane Foods and the U.S. Postal Service. The coronavirus shutdown has temporarily halted test fleets of some of ...

In the future, swarms of robots could be called in to build impressive structures or clean up dangerous messes too small to be seen with the naked eye. Just ask researchers at Caltech, who have ...