Designed to look and feel like real cats, the MetaCats purr, meow, and even respond to touch and voice with heart-shaped LED ...

It doesn’t have to be that way. A team of Dutch scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics (AMOLF) in ...

I n recent years, robot vacuums and mops have become increasingly more versatile and functional. What started as simple carpet sweepers has become far more than that, with incredi ...

Unlike traditional robot vacuums with RGB vision sensors that function like human eyes (they also perceive ... The flexible design allows it to avoid obstacles, protecting both the arm motor ...

It also involved attention to the eyes. The Feathers ... the only things I insisted on, design-wise, as a translation from the book to the screen, is the ROZZUM robot in Peter Brown’s ...

Atop a pile of enormous boulders is a tiny but unmistakable image of a robot: Roz, the book’s protagonist, with her bucket-shaped head, squared-off shoulders and two headlights for eyes.

This year, The Wild Robot was nominated for an Oscar in sound design, maybe because the movie managed Roz’s growing emotions in such a novel and delicate way. In this episode of Radio Atlantic ...