Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics—constraints on the behavior of androids and automatons meant to ensure the safety of humans—were also famously incomplete. The laws, which first appeared ...

This may be the first empathetic utterance by a commercial machine. In the late 1990s the Boston company SpeechWorks International began supplying companies with customer-service software programmed ...

Discover the fascinating process of creating a spider robot right at home with our easy-to-follow guide! This video takes you step by step through the materials needed and the assembly process. Learn ...

Maybe you're hoping to star on a robot fighting television show some day, or maybe you just fancy a new hobby, but for all kinds of reasons robotics is a fascinating industry for tech lovers - and one ...

If you’ve got the will, you’ll find the way to build your own tactical robot, at home, with a 3D printer. This guy did it. Engineering Juice is passionate about, you guessed it, engineering and has a ...

LEGO's new Mindstorms robotics kit is powerful and complex. Here's how we got started, and some tips along the way. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and ...

Wire Up Prepare the wiring and electrical components: Jumper wires. Construction goes faster with pre-made jumper wires for the BYFR’s main electrical cables. You want an assortment of five or 10 ...

Robots are creeping farther into our lives each month. Kickstarter right now is packed with more than 1,100 projects that aim to build robot bartenders, robot gardeners and even a 15-foot robot clone ...

Robots can walk, talk, run a hotel … and are entirely stumped by a doorknob. Or a mailbox. Or a dirty bathtub—zzzzt, dead. Sure, the SpotMini, a doglike domestic helper from Boston Dynamics, can climb ...

Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot Octopuses are some of the most complex, bizarre and intelligent creatures in ...