Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers ...

At Kingwood Middle School and Kingwood High School, students are getting a more hands-on learning experience with building ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that allows a user to easily program any robot to perform a task, dramatically bringing down the costs of building and programming mobile robots.

The robot can understand natural language commands, remember what it learned, and reuse instructions for similar tasks down the line.

Yet no robot can. It takes too much knowledge about that one kitchen—and too much common sense and flexibility and resourcefulness—for robot programming to capture.

Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program A prototype of a robotic hand learning to spin a cross-shaped widget. In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots.