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.

Ever wanted to build a robot? Trick question. Everybody wants to build a robot. Since the dawn of man, it’s been our mission to create untethered beauty and then immediately subjugate it to our ...

Earlier in the decade, Comedy Central ran a much-loved program called BattleBots, which featured many future Mythbusters stars and Robot Combat League robot-builder Mark Setrakian.

PyRobot could simplify the way researchers program their machines, and could even make it easier for non-robotics types to jump into the field.

Find out how to program a robot with this KS1 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 1 and 2.

Students can personalize the robot’s “body,” program the robot to mimic their head posture, and learn about AI ethics and fairness in an engaging, accessible way.

There are plenty of Arduino-based robots in the world, but actually building one is a bit tough if you're not familiar with Arduino programming. But a company called ArcBotics has created an ...

Programming a robot to teach itself how to move Flexible, open-ended learning software works but finds the real world difficult.

Making a Robot 'Disappear' Tim Jin (MSR '21) reflects on his independent project for Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program and what he learned from trying to make a ...

How to Build an Empathetic Robot Before we can share our lives with machines, we must teach them to understand and mimic human emotion ...