Aging populations, supply-chain woes and the electric-vehicle revolution could boost demand for robots manufactured by companies such as Japan’s Fanuc.

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to design microscale swimming robots from materials such as liquid crystal ...

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

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

Scientists working on robot octopuses choose their materials carefully, so the robots can perform well underwater for long periods without corroding.

Tesla wants to make robots now. These are some other working robots in the field, from Boston Dynamics' Atlas to Hanson Robotics' Sophia.

Rethink Robotics How collaborative robots could make work better Traditionally, robots are custom built to do one job and must be programmed specifically for that task.

Instead of replacing people, however, as some earlier industrial robots have, Sawyer is built to work alongside them. For Sawyer is a collaborative robot, also known as a “cobot”.

As many companies will likely begin to consider the adoption of office robots, here are some important things to understand when approaching this emerging technology.

Siemens's future "artificially intelligent" factory is aimed at a new trend in automation: telling robot and human workers how to help each other make things.

By combining data from a milking robot and a feeding robot, for example, farmers can close the loop, correlating when and how the cows are fed with their milk production.