Robotics

In the future, robots may perform your colonoscopy: Scientists at Vanderbilt University have developed a robot that can perform complex colonoscopy maneuvers in pigs.

A new self-driving car robot fits inside a suitcase and can be made with off-the-shelf parts for less than a few thousand dollars.

Meet Spot, the robotic dog trained to deliver packages.

For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, we'll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough.

In a move reflective of HBO's hit show "Westworld," the entertainment company has filed a patent for humanoid robot characters.

A new study assesses the evolutionary dynamics of physically embodied robots — and it suggests that we're mashing the fast-forward button on the impending robotic revolution.

A mysterious mech robot makes its debut for Amazon.

For the first time, robots have successfully performed a tricky, delicate operation that helped implant a hearing device into a deaf woman's ear.

Are you nervous about entrusting your life to a self-driving car? What if you could telepathically communicate with the vehicle to instantaneously let it know if it makes a mistake?