The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned ...

Scientists create smallest programmable robots ever - smaller than salt grains, these breakthrough microscopic machines could ...

Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...

Scientists have created a robot that learns lip movements by watching humans rather than following preset rules. The ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own ...

Niba Audrey Nirmal: Host Emma Dauster: Writer Attabey Rodríguez Benítez: Script Editor Kyle Nackers: Fact Checker Bonnie ...

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.

In robotics, as in so many things, small is beautiful. The trouble is that making them really small is very nearly impossible. “Building robots that operate independently at sizes below one millimeter ...

The moment you make your first AI music track can feel quite magical, especially if you are as profoundly unmusical as me.

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers ...

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our read for February – and the needle swings wildly from positive to negative ...