At the moment, AI is understandably a major topic. While we haven’t quite reached The Jetsons level of robot housekeepers, we might be onto some technology that's just as great. Beloved plant ...

Wall-E, a popular robot from a Pixar film named after itself, has been brought to life by the scientists following the creation of a seed planting robot. The A'seedbot could wander around a desert to ...

A US robotics company has quietly assembled what amounts to a colossal digital forest, training an artificial intelligence ...

MIT has developed a new kind of robot that can essentially extend itself -- "growing" in a way that's surprisingly similar to how a young plant grows upward. The way researchers accomplished this uses ...

This article was original featured on MIT Press.This article is excerpted from Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo’s book “Tales From a Robotic World.” In the early 2010s, a new trend in robotics began ...