Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

We don’t know about you, but our vision of a futuristic, robot-ran society has always entailed a bunch of highly specified machines performing everyday tasks, each a small but important cog in a ...

Plant robotics shows how living movement and sensing can power biodegradable machines that work with natural environments, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- These gardeners would have green thumbs -- if they had thumbs. A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, ...

BEIJING, China - A newly created robot plant makes it easy for you to exercise your green thumb: It will chase the sunlight, run to shade, dance when it's doing well and stomp when it needs to be ...

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This article was original featured on MIT Press.This article is excerpted from Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo’s book “Tales From a Robotic World.” In the early 2010s, a new trend in robotics began ...

This cute Groot-like creation carries potted plants on its back and moves toward light or shade as needed, the Verge reports. The robot plays with you when you tap its shell, and it dances when it’s ...

Researchers in China have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by “touching” their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such as ...

Plants, on the whole, do not move fast. While Venus flytraps and Mimosa pudicas have rapidly moving leaves, plants themselves tend to stay stationary. But what if they had robotic legs to help them ...

SPARTANBURG, SC—Two humanoid robots have completed an 11-month pilot project at BMW’s assembly plant here.

Shortly after taking its first steps in front of the world, the Aidol takes a tumble and gets dragged offstage by its human handlers.