Sam Kriegman, a professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, is something of a local celebrity. He can often be found on television shows explaining the wonders of his new invention – ...

The AI-designed robot has three legs, rear fins, a flat face and is riddled with holes — something a human engineer would never conceive. Inventor of xenobots unveils new advance toward artificial ...

Robotic vacuum cleaners have come a long way since their inception, evolving from basic dust collectors to intelligent home ...

Evolution is a very slow process, due largely to the fact that nature doesn't "know" in advance which features of an animal will be beneficial. A new AI-based algorithm does know, however, allowing it ...

So, here's how you go about evolving robots. First, buy a fancy computer and set up a virtual world that mimics the real world with the laws of physics - gravity and such -- programmed into it. You ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in plastic containers, the sort ...

The technical aspects of bearing specifications, touching on the evolution from standard to tailored solutions. An overview of the bearings used in humanoid robots, including crossed roller bearings, ...

There is no separating factories of any kind, especially the ones that produce machines and machinery of some kind, from robots. These construction tools have been around since forever ago, performing ...

A team led by Northwestern Engineering researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers ...

TESLA has Optimus and Xpeng has Iron. Both humanoid robots are common in concept but very different in execution. Clearly, in ...