Robotic animals are designed to be helpful rather than scary, showing promise in disaster recovery, utility inspection, and ...

Ground Control Robotics (GCR) Inc., a startup company seeking to commercialize a centipede-like robot developed at Georgia Institute of Technology, may be on the verge of acquiring its first customers ...

Can robots become emotional companions? Microduck raises questions about artificial intelligence, simulated emotions, and our ...

What makes many animals run faster and better than robots or humans? Robots run faster than humans due to better agility, robustness, and range. Believe it or not, robot cockroaches can assist ...

Nature has spent millions of years perfecting movement, efficiency, and survival. Engineers are now borrowing those evolutionary lessons to build robots capable of tackling some of humanity’s toughest ...

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 ...

Beyond animal biology, the findings could help engineers design flexible robots for challenging environments. "This research provides new ways of understanding neuromotor control in animals, which can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two teleoperated robots work as a team to perform a laparoscopic gallbladder removal during a pre-clinical trial. (CREDIT: UCSD) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could this be the future of surgery? (UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering) For the first time ever, humanoid robots operated by ...

Delta, United and Southwest Airlines are banning humanoid and animal robots on planes from flying in the main cabin or with checked luggage. Although humanoid and animal robots are extremely rare on ...