A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Their arms are bent at the elbows, palms facing down ...

In a crowded fourth-grade classroom in Chicago, a new kind of tutor is shaping how children learn about empathy, conflict, and problem-solving. These robots aren't programmed to act like friendly ...

Halo Braid, winner of the 2025 President’s Innovation Challenge Award at the Harvard Innovation Lab, has devised a hair-braiding robot. While braids are a popular, universal protective style that has ...

Just when you think technology can't get any stranger, it does — there are now edible robots. Picture this: a boat-shaped robot no longer than a paper clip, made entirely from biodegradable materials, ...

PITTSBURGH, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm an electrician, and I thought there could be a better way to navigate within electrical conduit, plumbing pipes or drain pipes," said an inventor, from ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of robot that can adapt, recover from damage, and keep moving even after being broken apart. The machines, called “legged metamachines,” ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a Fire Protection Engineer for the state of Arizona with 30 years of experience, I wanted to create a mobile security monitoring robot that would provide a ...

A decade ago, the “next big thing” in technology was the invention of mobile applications and cloud computing. Today, it is easy to feel whiplash.