robotics

Monomoy High School students will showcase their engineering skills on Saturday as they compete alongside 24 teams from Massachusetts in an international VEX robotics competition.

Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here's how workers can tell if they'll be replacedBeth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott…

When it comes to artificial intelligence, a lot of attention has been focused on issues of privacy and economics – what happens if AI makes human workers…

Experts in fish farming and robotics gathered in Woods Hole, MA, this week to discuss how they could work together to produce more seafood with less…

As the Navy continues to search for the doomed cargo ship El Faro, the loss has an eerie resemblance to the Derbyshire disaster some three decades before.…

Intelligence, compassion, consciousness. These are some of the most fundamental aspects of what it means to be human. Yet, biologists struggle to settle…

Giving robots morals may sound like a good idea, but it's a pursuit fraught with its own moral dilemmas. Like, whose morals? Stop and look around you…

Science fiction is full of robots, and many of them are murderous nightmares. As the field of robotics advances, robots with intelligence, even emotions,…