In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 21 (Reuters) - Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of ...

Researchers from AMOLF's Soft Robotic Matter group have shown that a group of small autonomous, self-learning robots can adapt easily to changing circumstances. They connected these simple robots in a ...

Inspired by a theoretical model of particles moving around on a chessboard, new robot swarm research shows that, as magnetic interactions increase, dispersed 'dumb robots' can abruptly gather in large ...

The science magazines of the 50s were fond of portraying the future as populated with ‘droids designed to ease life in every way imaginable. Sadly, it is the future, and that’s not quite the way ...

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