On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...

For billions of years, nature has been the world’s master engineer. Natural evolution has created impressive, sometimes implausible creatures. Take, for instance, the water strider. This group of ...

Bees, ants and termites don't need blueprints. They may have queens, but none of these species breed architects or construction managers. Each insect worker, or drone, simply responds to cues like ...

STEAMpunk is a team of Wisconsin high school students in Manitowoc County who build robots to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our manufacturing process allows us to develop robots that ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- In a space where bots meet berries, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is working to fill a technological gap in farming. Anthony Gunderman, now an assistant professor in the ...

Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...

A few weeks ago, a Chinese startup called EngineAI gave an unusual demonstration of how today’s robots learn. A female instructor with long blonde hair showed off a series of dance steps and then ...

Robots are becoming part of our everyday lives, from health care to home assistance. But for humans to truly trust and ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

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Happy, sad, surprised, angry and neutral are the five emotions displayed by the tiny robot designed by SEAS researchers. The robot, named Bartholomew, is just taller than a penny, approximately 1 ...