The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to design microscale swimming robots from materials such as liquid crystal ...

How to Robot: Your Guide to LEGO Mindstorms EV3 LEGO's new Mindstorms robotics kit is powerful and complex. Here's how we got started, and some tips along the way.

“We need to flip the script and use technology as part of the solution and the new system for how we build skills.” Beane has spent more than a decade examining work involving intelligent machines, ...

UBTech and Zeekr unite with AI robot swarms to make car manufacturing faster and smarter. Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how the process works.

Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics — constraints on the behavior of androids and automatons meant to ensure the safety of humans — were also famously incomplete. The laws, which first ...

These digital agents can be paired to work together as a team in order to build complicated, organically shaped three-dimensional structures as high as 15 feet tall.

For many of us, building with and taking apart to build again with Legos was a formative part of our childhood – there was a lot of creativity and flexibility built into the box of bricks and ...