A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Amazon has invested heavily in robotics and automation for its fulfillment centers. Its robots include mobile units, robotic arms, and sortation systems. Business Insider got an inside look at how the ...

The more intelligent and autonomous robotics systems become, the more attractive—and vulnerable—they are to cyber threats.

More specifically, their hulls are made out of commercial fish feed pellets that have been ground into a powder, mixed with a biopolymer binder, poured into a boat-shaped mold, then freeze-dried. In ...

By Abhirup Roy and Akash Sriram SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -How can Tesla become an $8.5 trillion company? That's the market ...

Sometimes robots make us feel uneasy because they make us think of death. Now, researchers are putting some real effort behind making our immortal creations feel a bit more alive. Humanlike robots can ...

A Parisian restaurant once promised a pizza experience unlike any other. Order your pizza and, within five minutes, a robot would craft your pie from scratch, no human hands required. This was the ...

Dorr heads up a research team at San Francisco-based RethinkX, a think-tank that analyzes disruptive technology. The team examined how technology has influenced society through human history, The ...

Engineers have been hard at work for years on building robots for home use and while we may still be years away from the ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nervewracking ...