Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter believes the robotics industry is evolving out of that niche stage and into scale. Playter ...

Banking on the idea that helper robots will be as ubiquitous in homes and offices as they are today in factories, Evolution Robotics has raised almost $14 million to continue developing both software ...

Evolution is a very slow process, due largely to the fact that nature doesn't "know" in advance which features of an animal will be beneficial. A new AI-based algorithm does know, however, allowing it ...

As a technological leap, robotic surgery is India’s opportunity to dissolve geographic inequality in healthcare.

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

The AI-designed robot has three legs, rear fins, a flat face and is riddled with holes — something a human engineer would never conceive. Inventor of xenobots unveils new advance toward artificial ...

IRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) is buying rival Evolution Robotics, maker of the Mint and Mint Plus floor-cleaning robots, for $74M in cash. IRobot claims the deal, which might raise some antitrust concerns, is ...

Change is often incremental enough that we do not always see its progress. The computer on your desk, the phone in your pocket; new models debut each year building on the ones that went before. The ...

So, here's how you go about evolving robots. First, buy a fancy computer and set up a virtual world that mimics the real world with the laws of physics - gravity and such -- programmed into it. You ...