We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

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, ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. What if the most impactful leap in artificial intelligence ...

Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...