Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Hospitals trumpet robotic surgery as innovation. Surgeons market it as progress. Manufacturers insist the technology is safe. But when things go wrong, everyone insists it was someone else’s fault.

First, though, the machines will have to learn how to pour water or carry soup, as a Chinese restaurant that replaced its wait staff with robots quickly learned. If we trusted this drone to get little ...

As billions of dollars pour into the robotics sector, on the back of the AI Spring, research suggests that many people’s fear of robots may be being overlooked.