One of the more fascinating sights of an autumn evening is the flocking behaviour of starlings as they lurch and swoop in extraordinary demonstrations of aerodynamic synchronisation. It turns out that ...

Robot programming is many students’ first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible.

PaR-PaR, a simple high-level, biology-friendly, robot-programming language uses an object-oriented approach to make it easier to integrate robotic equipment into biological laboratories. Effective ...

Teaching a robot a new trick is a challenge. You can't reward it with treats and it doesn't respond to approval or disappointment in your voice. For researchers in the biological sciences, however, ...

Kids, and Hackaday editors, love robots! The Open Roberta project (OR) takes advantage of this to teach kids about programming. And while the main focus is building a robot programming language that ...

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Cozmo was supposed to be the new face of robotics for Anki, previously known for its collection of connected toy cars. After Cozmo’s launch last October, the company offered SDKs for research groups ...

A cute human-like robot taught students in a small, rural school how to code while also helping them learn their local Aboriginal language. The Maitland Lutheran School is an independent, ...

Amazon unveiled a next-gen Proteus robot that takes conversational commands, part of a €10bn (~$11.6bn) European fulfilment investment.