Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are building swarms ... it will likely be years before we see self-replicating robot swarms, according to Gershenfeld.

Self-replicating robots are considered the holy grail of robotics ... While this concept remains in science fiction, MIT scientists have developed an assembly system that moves us closer to ...

The LineFORM is a shape-shifting robot that might one day provide several ... and Sean Follmer of the MIT Media Lab, the creation can “physically display expressive 2D and 3D shapes, both ...

We’ve seen many creative 3D designs here on Hackaday and [jegatheesan.soundarapandian’s] Baby MIT Cheetah Robot is no exception. You’ve undoubtedly seen MIT’s cheetah robot. Well, ...

In 1966, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann proposed that the most effective way of space exploration would be to design self-replicating robots. A hyper ...

What would you do if you saw a self-driving car hit a person? In Robot Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, posits a trolley ...

Researchers from MIT and Harvard claim to have solved the ... and that this gave it "self-healing" properties. This, the researchers concluded, is what is responsible for the enduring structures ...

The majority of his predictions have been spot on, though this time around he confessed to thinking that he, too, had allowed ...

One of our most accomplished experts in robots and AI explains why we expect too much from technology. He's fighting the hype, one successful prediction at a time.