Brian Machado originally built his robot, the Bracket Bot, to prank fellow students on campus at the University of Waterloo — he never imagined it could turn into a business. "I wanted to make 10 or ...

How about making a simple robot built with an inverted pendulum mechanism? The robot would balance on two wheels and uses a simple switch and sensor circuit. This would help beginners to get a hang of ...

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Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations. For all the recent advances in the field, humanoid robots, they say, have been overhyped and face daunting technical challenges ...

A team of MIT researchers created a speech-to-reality system that enables a robot to build furniture with just a simple ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

A Parisian restaurant once promised a pizza experience unlike any other. Order your pizza and, within five minutes, a robot would craft your pie from scratch, no human hands required. This was the ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...