Leka is the new smart robot for children with developmental disorders
Leka launched an Indiegogo campaign to develop a new toy for children with developmental orders, seeking to change the way youngsters learn and play.
Watch robots go medieval on one another at the FIRST competition
The 25th annual FIRST competition culminated in a battle royale among four teams in front of a crowd of over 40,000.
Is Puma’s new robot runner faster than Usain Bolt?
Puma's BeatBot is like a lure for human greyhounds. Racing a robot seems like either a recipe for embarrassment or the best training ever.
Don't be fooled by its cute exterior; This robotic guard can tase people who get unruly
The National Defense University in China unveiled the country's first "intelligent security guard," equipped with on-board cameras and a taser
Buddhism is embracing technology with a cute little Buddha-bot
Meet Xian'er, the baby robot monk designed promote the wisdom of an old religion in a very new way.
This DIY robot on Indiegogo hopes to spur kids’ inegenuity
DFRobot is a robotics and open-source hardware provider that has just launched a new Indiegogo campaign to fund a DIY robot named Antbo.
Touchy-feely: New force-detecting synthetic skin gives robots a sense of touch
A smart skin developed by Chinese engineers may help robots – and people with prosthetic limbs – get in touch with the world around them.
This robot makes sure no drop is wasted when you water your lawn
There are two things wrong with watering your grass with a hose - it takes time and it takes water. Growver, however, is here to fix both of those things.
Robot waiters get fired after disastrous performance
If the humans ain't broke, don't replace them with robots. Otherwise, your whole restaurant will itself be -- you guessed it -- broke.
This giant orb drone uses a chameleon-like tongue to snatch small objects
FreeMotionHandling is an autonomous spherical drone with a robotic gripper arm that can pick up and deliver any object to wherever it is needed most.
This new robot can keep its balance on beach rocks
Google subsidiary Schaft has shown what the future looks like in Tokyo, Japan. Robots helping with physical labor no longer seem too far away.
What lurks beneath Yellowstone Lake? This robot sub will find out
The Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration (GFOE) has taken to Kickstarter to raise funds to explore Yellowstone Lake.
Hong Kong man spends 1.5 years, $50K to build his own female robot
A 42-year-old man in Hong Kong spent a year-and-a-half and more than $50,000 to build a female robot that’s meant to resemble a certain Hollywood actress.
Nearly all of the Fukushima clean-up robots have been destroyed by radiation exposure
Five years after their deployment to the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown, the remote-controlled robots have "died."
A 19-year-old kid built this free robo-lawyer, and it has already appealed over $3M in parking tickets
This free robotic lawyer has appealed more than $3 million in parking tickets, and was built by a 19-year-old British programmer named Joshua Browder.
Will computerized voices ever sound human?
Computerized voices haven't quite hit the mark yet on sounding ... human, and it's the subject of one of the tech industry's latest major efforts.
This super-flexible search and rescue robot was inspired by the American cockroach
A prototype for a new kind of search and rescue robot was inspired by the durable and flexible exoskeleton of the American cockroach.
Give up, humanity. This robot can solve a Rubik’s cube in under 1 second
This supercharged and super fast competition involves a bunch of robot makers and a bunch of Rubik's cubes.
This new soft robotic gripper can gently pick up objects of practically any shape
Scientists say they have managed to develop a robot with "a new soft gripper" that uses electroadhesion.
This robot manages to solve a Rubik’s Cube in a second
Obliterating the current human record for solving a Rubik's Cube (4.904 seconds), a robot managed to crack the code to the famous puzzle in 1.019 seconds.
Killer robots may be on the horizon, and are perhaps more dangerous than we think
We've heard about how robots are endangering our jobs, but now it's more than our careers that may be at stake. Are killer robots inching closer to reality?
Cerevo’s recently-announced Tipron is the robotic cyclops of projectors
Cerevo's Tipron is a transformable, robotic projector that's ready to roam around your home and beam an 80-inch screen whenever you see fit.
Boston Dynamics Spot robot takes center stage in holiday greeting
Boston Dynamics'recent holiday greeting takes a high-tech spin on Santa, upgrading jolly Saint Nick's fleet of reindeer.
The Tinder True Love Robot Reads Your Body to Swipe Left or Right
An NYU graduate has built a robot that works with Tinder to make its users' selections on the app.
Google and Johnson & Johnson are working on robots for surgery
Named Verb Surgical, this latest offshoot might be one of Google's most impressive to date. Its goal is to create better robotic surgical assistants.
Want to check out Pepper the robot in action? Head to a French train station
Pepper the robot sold out in less than a minute in Japan, but now you can see it welcoming guests at a French train station.
Robots might take over almost half of Japan within the next 20 years
They're already driving taxis, running hotels, and serving as disaster relief personnel in Japan, so of course it's only a matter of time before robots take over the country altogether.
Telepresence robot becomes the eyes and ears of disabled adults
Italian and Swiss researchers are combining brain control with a telepresence robot to make it easier for disabled adults to gain more independence.