Most of nature – including humans – is symmetrical, and as creations reflect their creators, many robots we create today feature this symmetry, with the general assumption that symmetry is best.

Footage of a robotics demonstration has gone viral after the robot kicked a child in the stomach. The incident took place at a Xinjiang tourist attraction while spectators were gathered for a robotics ...

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...

If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job? This is the pitch being made by Zhou ...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A robot being developed at Duke University is almost ready to face the world, in any direction. Instead of trying to copy symmetrical shapes from nature by building robots that ...

Jiaxun Liu, a Ph.D. student, works on a robot named Argus at Duke University's General Robotics Lab in Durham, N.C., Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A robot being ...