My Special Aflac Duck and Paro seal are among a new wave of robots that straddle the line between a therapy animal and a friend.

Unlike traditional robots that rely on electric motors or mechanical parts, biohybrid robots are powered by living muscle ...

A researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is designing small flying robots modeled after bats to support search ...

No need to drag out the vacuum every week to keep your home floors looking spotless. Instead, put your feet up and let a ...

High-yielding herds milking through robots and running heifers as a separate milking group are now using a bovine pheromone ...

Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have created a new type of soft robot that moves and reacts without using any ...

This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s series “The New Conspiracy Age,” on how the present boom in conspiracy theories ...

If you want to build an actual HAL 9000, all you need is an LED, some carpentry skills, and any laptop accessing a talking AI ...

Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.

And then there’s the fact that kids can find AI-enabled toys uncanny. The Good Housekeeping Institute hasn’t had the ...

Your home has a complicated layout. A lot of 1970s homes have strange, complicated designs—a sunken living room, a playroom that’s up a few stairs, bedrooms upstairs. Although stair-climbing vacuums ...