“Empathy is the new black,” someone said to me recently, referring to the trend in recent years to blame many of humanity’s most pressing problems on the depletion of empathy in today’s tech-mediated ...

RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms with ...

ESPOO, Finland — Is robot art more creative when you see the metallic hand behind it? According to Finnish researchers, the answer is yes. A new study reveals that humans give robot-created art higher ...

Machines creating art: the emergence of AI as the artist. Source: Image by Patrick Tresset Meet Patrick Tresset, a London-based artist. His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset ...

SketRobo is a small robot that can draw pictures ranging from pre-programmed ones to custom portraits. The robot at IFA held an ink pen and quickly drew one of 200 pre-loaded pictures on a ...

Scribit is a drawing robot that can turn your walls into a work of art. The little bot raised over $1.6 million on Kickstarter, crushing the company's $50,000 goal in just two hours. Scribit uses four ...

A university computer scientist is using robots and other technology to draw middle and high school students to STEM.

MIT has created a pretty cool "phantograph," a machine that mimics the way humans draw. The twist? This phantograph is a drone. The system tracks pen movements as a user draws on a desk. These ...

So, you need a robot that climbs stairs. What shape should that robot be? Should it have two legs, like a person? Or six, like an ant? Choosing the right shape will be vital for your robot's ability ...