I am convinced that this giant robot, from the 1957 movie Kronos: Ravager of Planets, is perhaps the very best of the abstract giant robots. And by “abstract,” I mean Kronos here looks basically like ...

As Covid-19 infection rates continue to surge in the United States and across the planet, social distancing remains one of humanity’s core precautions, albeit a more difficult one to keep up through ...

New research shows how robots can autonomously construct abstract representations of their surroundings and use them to plan for multi-step tasks. Researchers from Brown University and MIT have ...

As the world scrambles to contain the coronavirus, robots have moved to the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic, assuming a critical role in keeping us safe and helping us cope with life at a ...

But are their overtly humanoid forms even necessary, especially when they can be complex to design, manufacture, and maintain? Do robots really need faces? A new study from researchers at the Media ...

Back in 2015 two pieces of abstract art appeared from an artist named Mr. Head. The art was notable due to the fact that Mr. Head was not a human being but actually an old Roomba robot vacuum, ...

Abstract: Robots may augment emergency response teams by collecting information in environments that may be dangerous or inaccessible for human responders, such as in wildfire fighting, search and ...