
Want to Get Humans to Trust Robots? Let Them Dance
A performance with living and mechanical partners can teach researchers how to design more relatable bots

Want to Get Humans to Trust Robots? Let Them Dance
A performance with living and mechanical partners can teach researchers how to design more relatable bots

Evolution Gym Sculpts Novel Robot Bodies and Brains
The virtual robots look weird, but they get the job done


Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot
An ambitious project is underway to develop a robot with enough smarts, strength and sensitivity to restore fragmented archaeological remains

To Better Persuade a Human, a Robot Should Use This Trick
A new study finds that, for robots, overlords are less persuasive than peers.

Firefighting Robots Go Autonomous
Both independent and remote-controlled machines can save lives