When the robot found the shipwreck, the humans controlling it must have been elated. The SS Central America, a paddle wheel steamboat, had gone down in a hurricane in 1857, loaded with gold from the ...

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, ...

The stay-at-home order over the coronavirus pandemic threw a kink into plans for a launch party to celebrate Dustin Abnet’s new book, “The American Robot: A Cultural History.” So Abnet’s colleagues in ...

From Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics to bipedal machines you can buy today, here are 12 important milestones in the development of robots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The just-issued World Robotics Report announced an all-time high of 517,385 new industrial robots installed in 2021 in factories around the world, representing 31% year-on-year growth. That brought ...