The word ‘robot’ wasn’t coined until 1920, when it was used by Czech playwright Karel Čapek in the play R.U.R., or Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots in English). Robots — or ...

How to Build an Ancient Robot. Using plans from a medieval text called "The Book of Ingenious Devices," experts recreate one of the world's first robots.

To recapture a key moment in evolution, when aquatic animals walked out of the ocean, a group of scientists is building robots that mimic the motions of ancient organisms, according to a report in ...