Chinese authorities announced recently that a handful of "smart" robots have been inspected and approved for use in the upkeep of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) — ...

When the NOAA Weather Radio robot voice pronounces the names of local communities in the Puget Sound area correctly, it’s because human hands and ears are at work “behind the sounds.” You might ...

Freddy Liu, Haowen Lai and Mingmin Zhao, from left, setting up a robot equipped with PanoRadar for a test run. In the race to develop robust perception systems for robots, one persistent challenge has ...

A team of researchers at the University of Washington has unveiled MilliMobile, a tiny self-driving robot that relies solely on ambient light or radio waves for power. This robot is equipped with a ...