Humanoid robots are edging closer to everyday life, and a new wave of US startups is betting that the real breakthrough will not be in metal and motors but in the “brains” that let machines understand ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

For more than a decade, scientists have been creating artificial brain tissue, known as brain organoids, in the lab and integrating them with computer chips. A new study in China took this idea one ...

Researchers at Cornell have come up with a novel way to control a walking robot: with a mushroom. Cornell explained in a press release that these four-legged “biohybrid” robots were built by ...

What if a robot could show us how the brain keeps us balanced? UBC scientists built one – and their discovery could help shape new ways to reduce fall risk for millions of people. A towering ...