Researchers at Cornell University in New York have created robotic cubes that can create copies of themselves in under three minutes which, surprisingly, the scientists purport are simple machines. Self-replicating robots are simple? That's because that's all the cubes do...

When you're stressed out, sometimes it's best to just be left alone. People can often tell when you're stressed out and need some space, but mechanical devices such as a Roomba vacuum cleaner don't have such great powers of perception....

In our three part series on the future of robotics, we've been trying to figure out just what it would take to build C-3PO for real. First we asked James Kuffner, a Carnegie Mellon professor who is working to build...

In the first part of our expert roundtable, we asked AI whiz and CMU assistant professor James Kuffner what it would take to breathe life into C-3PO. Now we turn to Matt Denton, who runs an animatronic company in the...