Robotics ethicist Kate Darling surveys our history with animals—in work, war, and companionship—to show how we might develop similar relationships with robots.

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are looking into how to make robots that can run faster than animals.

Welcome to another edition of Robots Everywhere, a show where we chronicle the slow but steady takeover of our future robot overlords, and show how they’re making their way into practically ...

Newly developed robotic kits with legs, inspired from animal movement, constitute off-the-shelf solutions for scientist who need to model movement Robots are usually thought off as devices to ...

How Scientists Are Using Robotic Animals to Learn About Real Ones Biomimetic bots can teach researchers a lot about how creatures interact in the natural world ...

Humans have worked alongside animals for centuries. So why are we so obsessed with comparing robots to ourselves?

Just as we and many animals—including cephalopods—learn at a young age how to control our limbs, so, too, will these soft-bodied robots.