No robot can reproduce the way that algal cells, begonias, and people can. However, an automaton that’s little more than a stack of blocks has shown that it, too, can make more of its own kind.

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. It looks like a telescoping grabber tool attached to a hat stand, but it could be the future of home robotics.

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.

Tesla has teased its Optimus humanoid robot prototype with a new image, ahead of a full unveiling planned for September 30. Earlier this year, CEO Elon Musk announced “Tesla AI Day #2” with “many cool ...

Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too. Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, ...

Jan. 30 (UPI) --Engineers at Columbia University have built a robot capable of building an image of itself from scratch. Robots have not yet learned to create a self-image. To conceptualize themselves ...