Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material. Imagine a robot ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

Amid intensifying global competition to accelerate scientific research using artificial intelligence, the Institute of Science Tokyo has opened a base where AI tools and robots will conduct fully ...

September 15, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers received a grant worth more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand robot theater, an after-school program that helps children ...

Symmetry is everywhere in nature, from the bilateral form of vertebrates to the radial geometry of starfish. For decades, ...

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has repurposed robots originally designed for the mining industry to undertake maintenance inspections at large-scale solar ...

As robots enter hospitals and care facilities, questions remain about whether they actually make care easier for the people ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

一个自带耳朵和眼睛的水下机器人，在加勒比海的珊瑚礁上，靠“听”和“看”自己找到了生物集群最集中的地方。 在加勒比海美属维尔京群岛的海底，有一片名为 Joel‘s Shoal 的健康珊瑚礁。这里是大量鱼类和无脊椎动物的家园，也是科学家长期监测的生态样地 ...