ASIMO, the world’s first bi-pedal humanoid robot, “lived” just 22 years. But that brief time ushered in an era of robotic acceptance and innovation that has fueled progress in robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and automation of all kinds....

Restoring smell to a person who’s lost the ability; identifying a new smell with the touch of a button; alerting a cleaning crew that a passenger just ate some super-smelly tuna in a ride-share vehicle – these are all...

When Ishan Khatri was little, he would pore over copies of Popular Science from the library, enamored with the futuristic vehicles, robots, and tools that filled the glossy, colorful pages, and the inspiring scientists, engineers, and designers making them....

An industrial robotic arm is an unusual choice for a dance partner, but it was the one sought after by Dr. Merritt Moore, a former dancer with the Norwegian National Ballet. Moore is also a quantum physicist and graduated...

Over a century after it sank into the depths of the most remote, most brutal, and least surveyed waters on the planet, the once unreachable wreck of the sail ship Endurance has finally been found—thanks to autonomous technology. Two...

When Henny Admoni tells people she’s a roboticist who primarily studies humans, she gets strange looks. “It might seem a little weird,” Admoni says, “but the goal of my research is to understand how to make robots good for...