In a scene from The Wizard of Oz, Glinda asks Dorothy: “Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?” Swap “witch” for “bot” and the question writes itself. Or let’s take a Kollywood example: In the film ...

Paddington Bear producers have sued Spitting Image over its foul-mouthed caricature of the marmalade-loving bear, originally created by British author Michael Bond in 1958. At such a critical moment ...

Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched. These ...

Watch robotic hand glide to Smooth Criminal a playful moonwalk demo shows just how dexterous robotic motion has become.

Abstract: The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...