In the movie Robot and Frank, made in 2012 and set in the near future, an elderly man named Frank (played by Frank Langella) is losing his memory. His adult son, concerned because his father lives ...

A team led by Northwestern University’s Sam Kriegman built an AI system that designed a walking robot from scratch in seconds, then manufactured the result and watched it move across a lab bench. The ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a modular, open-source robot that can rapidly change its body proportions to test how anatomy affects movement. Called The Robot of Theseus, or ...

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

Toyota has unveiled CUE7, the latest version of its basketball-playing robot, as a demonstration ...