While most think of robots as an outgrowth of the past 100 years of science fiction, the ancient world was also obsessed with them, and theirs weren’t always so friendly.

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.

Robot Used To Explore Ancient Tunnel At Teotihuacan Ruins, 1st For Mexican Archaeology ...

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 ...