What has solid parts and squishes? NASA’s SUPERball robot. A demonstration video shows the bot falling from a loading dock on to the hard pavement a few feet below. Such a fall would damage most heavy ...

Vikas Gupta is showing me his robot, a three-wheeled whirling dervish that vaguely reminds me of Pixar’s Wall-E and sounds like a Teletubbie. Its name is Dash, and there is no escaping its adorability ...

San Francisco A.I. startup Anki has a great reputation for making robot cars you can race with your phone. And considering all three founders got their start at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. We are two full months past Christmas now, but it’s about ...

Baby Yoda has been a hit character in Disney’s The Mandalorian, but does not actually exist in real life as far as we know. Instead, [Manuel Ahumada] set about building a robotic replica, complete ...

Scientists are trying a new tactic to train robots: babying them. A team based at the University of Washington is coding robot behavior to look a lot like kids playing, reports Kit Eaton for Quartz.

As I rounded corner after corner at the NY Toy Fair this week, there they were: robots, and lots of them. Some were fuzzy and wanted to be my friend. Some had a menacing mechanical appeal. Others ...

An exhibition in Osaka, central Japan, has assembled a hall of fame for Japanese tech products, with hits including Sony’s Walkman and Aibo, an original Tranformer toy, and Paro the baby seal robot on ...