How to Build a Robot That Won't Take Over the World The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior.

Why not the real world? The main obstacle to scaling this model up, and why we’re not putting this on any real robot yet, is that it’s hard to compute the channel capacity of an agent and a human far ...

How do you build a robot army? A deep dive into building robots from scratch and their controlling hive mind.

If you want to build a robot that can fall hundreds of feet and be no worse the wear, legs are pretty much out of the question. The obvious answer, then, is a complex web of cable-actuated rods ...

Robot vacuums are being released with higher and higher suction power, but it doesn't always translate to more effective vacuuming. Here's what else to look at when choosing a robot vacuum for ...

A new National Science Foundation project led by Oregon State University aims to build and distribute 50 standardized robots throughout the research community.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not ...