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.

A low-cost, simple robotic apple picker arm developed by Washington State University researchers may someday help with fruit ...

A small do-it-yourself desk robot named Mo-chan has been shared with makers, demonstrating how individuals can build simple ...

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 ...

Asimov's 3 laws of robotics were theoretical. These new 24 laws of robots and AI are very real ... but it's unclear how ...

Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in ...

Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...