James Bruton’s one-ball bike balances and moves omni-directionally; each omni-wheel uses 216 bearings, but steering is inconsistent atm ...

When 12-year-old Matteo Mucchetti mapped out an amusement-style attraction that he wanted to create in his family’s basement and then showed it to his older brother Nico, the high-school sophomore was ...

When McDonogh School’s robotics team, Electric Slide, hosted a pumpkin chuckin’ booth at the annual Honey of a JamFest in October, they were not just sharing the fun of physics; they were also ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to communicate like ...

Medtronic asked how it could make its surgical robot different as it sought to compete against Intuitive. Robots first launched into the operating room in 1985, introduced as a non-laparoscopic, ...

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode What can you control in this chaotic world? What do you want out of life? Instead of ignoring daunting questions like this, designer Bill Burnett says we should ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Once you have all materials, access the workbench crafting menu and, on the right side, select the "upgrade" command. The upgrade only applies to a single workbench. So, if you have another, you will ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have trained a human-like robot named Emo to lip-sync speech and songs by studying online videos, showing how machines can now learn complex human behaviour simply ...

Credit: Mashable composite: Via Getty Images — Robyn Beck / AFP; Justin Sullivan; Britta Pedersen / Picture Alliance; X; David McNew / AFP; David Becker / Getty Images It was easy to get excited by, ...

So, how does a robot actually do its thing? It might seem like magic, but it’s really just a combination of a few key parts working together. Think of it like building with LEGOs, but way more ...