Entering an Era of Learning in Virtual Spaces and Operating in the Real WorldOn October 7, 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...

In a move that inches us just a little closer to the singularity, engineers have developed robots that can grow, self-repair, and morph by absorbing parts from other robots. They can also help their ...

In August, robots again filled the halls of the 2026 World Robot Conference: humanoids danced, fought, grasped, and sorted; robotic arms plugged and stacked on simulated lines. For anyone who watched ...

Sam Kriegman, a professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, is something of a local celebrity. He can often be found on television shows explaining the wonders of his new invention – ...

While the field of robotics has made many exciting advances in recent years, designs of new robots are still generally being conceived by human engineers. Inspired by the evolution of organisms in ...

Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A second company has offered a surprise award to the winner of an iRobot contest. Danh Trinh, of Towson, Md., received $5,000 in iRobot's Create Challenge Contest. Now, he also has received a prize ...