Grant Imahara, the electrical engineer and roboticist who co-hosted the popular science show Mythbusters, died on July 13 of a brain aneurysm. He was 49. Discovery Communication shared the news of ...

Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors funneling billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money. Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, ...

Grant Imahara, a roboticist and electrical engineer whose work appeared in films and TV series such as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Matrix Reloaded, and MythBusters, died suddenly on ...

In the past seven months or so, we as a society have spent a lot more time at home. Some of us in the company of family, maybe some pets or maybe with some robots. Our computers, smartphones, smart ...

The renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has revealed how he believes humanoid robots will develop in the coming years, and his suggestions may surprise you. Brooks, an AI pioneer and entrepreneur known ...

There’s no such thing as a future-proof career. This is something I consider nearly any time I write about advances in generative AI. Is there a sense in which I’m contributing to the propagation of ...

Tesla is teasing its upcoming new Dojo supercomputer, and famed roboticist Dennis Hong all but confirms that his lab is going to be working with the automaker. Last month, Elon Musk announced that ...

Boston Cleek (MSR '20) talks about his experience in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program and his new job at PickNik Robotics. When Boston Cleek (MSR '20) applied to ...

Sand. Many hate it because it’s coarse and rough and gets everywhere. But according to a leading robotics researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), hightailing it onto some sand ...

Almost a third of a nurse’s average day “is spent on non-patient care: fetching, gathering, even taking out the trash,” says Andrea Thomaz, who, after a career spent running robotics labs at the ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...