The robotic turtle above can't wield katanas, eat pizza or shout cowabunga, but it can still do something awesome: draw big sand sketches on the beach. It's named "Beachbot" and was developed by a ...

After the robot was taught by 14 volunteers in the lab, the scientists posted questions to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Mechanical Turk distributes simple tasks to thousands of online workers for a small ...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. As a youngster, you may have been told -- and quite rightly so -- not to stare directly at the sun ...

A beach robot creates large-scale sand drawings autonomously, sent to it wirelessly via an app.

A game designed to encourage 3 year olds to code has debuted at the 2014 International American Toy Fair after becoming the most-funded board game in the history of Kickstarter.

Slightly larger than a Roomba, the cartoonish robot turtle uses innovative soft balloon-like wheels so that it doesn’t leave a trail while rolling across a beach, but can deploy a built-in rake ...