It’s not exactly “Welcome our new robot overlords” material, but a new, award-winning video showing a robot “swarm” teaming up for a bookshelf heist is still pretty impressive — if only for the ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few truly autonomous systems are deployed on the battlefield, but one startup is looking to change that with robotic systems that ...

Bees, ants, and termites build complex structures without blueprints, architects, or construction supervisors. Their colonies produce intricate hives and nests by relying on local cues like warmth, ...

A team of AI driven unmanned ground vehicles navigates obstacles, locates fires, and coordinates suppression tasks in simulated high risk industrial scenarios.

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Nature likes swarms. Birds, ants, bees, brain cells—even people—form swarms when given the chance for reasons that are still not completely understood. They go from being individuals to one cohesive ...

Taking inspiration from nature, a team of scientists from Princeton University and Northwestern University is building a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that could one day lead to buildings with ...