War Robots is a full-metal, multiplayer action game where you take part in epic battles against other players using your ...

This robot knows how to shape alphabet letters by using kid-friendly clay, Play-Doh, without any human assistance, all thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers it. As kids, most of us, ...

Soft robots still tend to rely on hard electronics to function, but a new invention might reduce that need for unyielding chips. UC Riverside researchers have developed pneumatic computer memory that ...

While the rules of Jenga are pretty simple to grasp, for a robot to play it also needs to understand physics and gain a sense of touch. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each ...

Mecha shows like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Mobile Suit Gundam" have helped popularize the present robot games. Fighting your opponents with your laser or gun-equipped robot is a common scenario ...

At ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab, engineers have created ANYmal-D, a four-legged robot that can play badminton with people. This project brings together robotics, artificial intelligence and sports ...

Here’s a fun challenge: teaching a quadrupedal robot to successfully dribble a soccer ball. It is, in essence, a core component of RoboCup, the big international competition founded all the way back ...

They say that the protagonist of a story should be relatable to whoever’s experiencing it. Obviously, the easiest way to do that is to make your protagonist human, but that’s not a hard and fast ...

When you're plugged into a good virtual reality experience, you might talk about how it "feels real." That's apparently not good enough for engineer James Bruton, who built a robot to punch him while ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...