Robot supplies at the home of Walt Perko who is working on a program called RoboGuts that teaches kids and hobbyists how to make robots at his home on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Las Vegas.

Kids in third through sixth grades can learn how to build and program a LEGO robot with help from the Electric Hornets. The ...

Modern robots know how to sense their environment and respond to language, but what they don't know is often more important than what they do know. Teaching robots to ask for help is key to making ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

It took hundreds of hours of data to train Zara, but today the program runs on a single desktop computer. For the moment, she is a virtual robot, represented on a screen by a cartoon character.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

Sparki is mostly geared toward education, with a suggested age of 11 and up. But there's nothing stopping adults from using Sparki as an easy introduction to Arduino programming. "To write your ...

Whether it's which tasks we can automate, the cost and time necessary for robot automation or how workers can contribute, the rise of easy-to-program robots forces us to rethink our assumptions ...

Here’s how it works. You might think a robot would be more likely to win people over if it were good at its job. But according to a recent study, people find imperfect robots more likable.

If programming robots has so far been something like wading through a command-line interface, PyRobot promises to be like gliding through the sleekness of macOS.

To make this prediction possible, the robots are pre programmed with a basic grasp of physics so that they understand what happens when objects collide. Winfield describes his robots as having a ...