In an age of increasingly advanced robotics, one team has well and truly bucked the trend, instead finding inspiration within the pinhead-sized brain of a tiny flying insect in order to build a robot ...

Humanoid robots are edging closer to everyday life, and a new wave of US startups is betting that the real breakthrough will not be in metal and motors but in the “brains” that let machines understand ...

A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a "brain-on-a-chip," and the researchers have been working to train the robot to ...

Watch our interview with Professor Kevin Warwick, School of Systems Engineering, and Dr Ben Whalley, School of Pharmacy (WAV – 57MB) A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed ...

Earlier this week, we shared a video showing a humanoid robot recovering at lightning speed after being kicked to the ground. Its ability to get back up again was truly remarkable and demonstrates ...

'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent ...