Science is exciting in theory, but it can also be dreadfully dull. Some experiments require hundreds or thousands of repetitions or trials — an excellent opportunity to automate. That’s just what MIT ...

The University of Liverpool's new lab assistant works 1,000 times faster than any chemist that's come before it—it's also a robot. But this robot doesn't want to replace other humans because its ...

Touching a Mechanical Body: Tactile Contact With Intimate Parts of a Human-Shaped Robot is Physiologically Arousing." The experiment consisted of instructions spoken by the robot followed by 26 trials ...

Teradyne's strategy of diversifying into the robotics market is not paying off as it faces significant challenges. The robotics distraction also causes the company to lose market share in its core ...

Science is coming to life as Mad Science visits to perform a live experiment and highlight how its programs are helping ...

Science laboratories across disciplines--chemistry, biochemistry and materials science--are on the verge of a sweeping transformation as robotic automation and AI lead to faster and more precise ...

Do robots have sexist and racist tendencies? LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 04: Ai-Da Robot, an ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, looks towards Aidan Meller during a press call at The British Library on ...

Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics states that “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” That sounds simple enough — but a recent experiment ...