Robots

Musk bot botches battery build, fumbles fuzzy fiberglass.

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk just paid a rare compliment to his own species, calling humans "underrated" on Twitter last week.

The artificial intelligence (AI) community has a clear message for researchers in South Korea: Don't make killer robots.

Creators of the endearing "Star Wars" droid BB-8 revealed how they constructed this adorable mechanical marvel.

These Marsbees would flap their way around the Red Planet, mapping the terrain and collecting air samples.

This robot goes to MIT and just set a world Rubik's Cube speed record. If robots had grandparents, this one's would be very proud.

Being a fry cook isn't as easy as it looks, as a burger-flipping robot named "Flippy" recently discovered.

The crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) will soon welcome a new member, described by its creators as "a kind of flying brain."

The little, swiveling robots will look at a new portion of the sky for the invisible force called dark energy that may be causing the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Cockroaches take a head-on approach to obstacles.

A metallic robot hand with "Terminator"-like power sounds good for the movies. But what about a real-life future where that android is now cradling your baby or just shaking your hand?

It's 'Human Uber'... hUber?

This uncanny android has a job — and some say "a soul."

This dirt-dispersing robot-baby torso will crawl out of the lab and into your nightmares.

A biohybrid sperm microrobot might one day deliver anti-cancer drugs to tumors in the female reproductive tract, according to a new paper from Germany.

There may come a day when humans take on the form of cyborgs with integrated, robotic parts to enhance our abilities. But long before that, look for "biohybrid" robots...

Atlas, a new disaster robot can execute amazing human-like acrobatic feats such as backflips and in-air pirouettes.