New ‘Paleo-Robots’ Could Shed Light on Animal Evolution, Revealing How Some Fish Evolved to ‘Walk’ on Land A team of roboticists, paleontologists and biologists are building robots to ...

Scientists have built a dog-sized robot with four-legs which learns how to walk. Just like young animals stumble and stutter as they get their bearings on their legs for the first time, the robot ...

The notion isn’t as peculiar as it sounds. Advances in robotics technology and computing power mean that engineers can build robots realistic enough that animals respond to them as if they were ...

Here’s our soft robot hand in action: This article was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Wave Hello To A Soft Robot Hand.” ...

New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our lives.

Just as we and many animals—including cephalopods—learn at a young age how to control our limbs, so, too, will these soft-bodied robots.

The Scottish SPCA is using robots to teach kids how to best care for and show kindness to animals.

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

The robot is designed to understand how animals like whales and dolphins breach the water's surface.