A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team of Johns ...

PyRobot could simplify the way researchers program their machines, and could even make it easier for non-robotics types to jump into the field.

Aside from the fact that a robot arm is autonomously performing surgery, the biggest breakthrough here may be that the robot, which they call “Soft Tissue Autonomous Robot” or “STAR,” was ...

Javen Cheok, an eight-year-old student from Sri Kuala Lumpur International School, won the Runner-Up award in the 'Robot ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers ...

It probably helps that the Sphero robot is already a rolling and tumbling ball of fun, but it still need a bit of work to make look like BB-8. He did have to cut it up a bit to make that happen ...