A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.
One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...
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For Elon Musk, the future of Tesla isn't its global fleet of EVs. It's Optimus, the humanoid robot designed to help humans ...
[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics ...
Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. For the first time in the history of robot dogs and space ...
These robots are more than meets the eye. If you've ever wanted to "roll out" like one of the Autobots from the hit media franchise "Transformers," you might be able to soon! The ride-able ...
In the 1950s, as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation short stories were fixed up into his Foundation novels, the author was dabbling with a different sci-fi continuity altogether, the future history of robots.