Robots will likely be a part of our everyday life sooner or later, and one scientist is trying to change how empathetic they are in a surprising way.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

Firms are working to make the motors that drive robots more efficient and cheaper.

The race to build intelligent, autonomous robots is accelerating, with capital flowing into sleek prototypes and promising demonstrations across Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou. Yet, beneath ...

Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're ...

ABB Robotics is spearheading an initiative to develop the first global standardized method for measuring the energy ...

Spy in the Ocean is an engaging four-part show from Nature that drops the audience right into the mysterious deep blue sea.

MIT researchers are pioneering a new method for robot training that could create an all-purpose robot brain for all robot types. There’s no question that robotics is transforming our world. Thanks to ...

NEW YORK — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...