JANE, Mo. — For the McDonald County School District — it’s being touted as a story of innovation, leadership and the future of education. What’s more — it involves robots. And — students doing the ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

There’s a new resident on the floor of a Queens hospital. Kids at St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital have a new staffer to help brighten their days — a four-foot tall robot with bright eyes and a smiling ...

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Abstract: Distributed optimization provides a framework for deriving distributed algorithms for a variety of multi-robot problems. This tutorial constitutes the first part of a two-part series on ...

A unique roadside pickup program in Michigan suggests that robots will continue to remove barriers that prevent people from taking eco-friendly action. The initiative is focused on reducing food waste ...

A Miami-based robotics company is rolling out a high-tech pilot program at a local fitness facility as part of its push into the wellness market. Uber Eats partners with robotics company for Miami ...

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In a world where automation is advancing by leaps and bounds, collaboration between robots is no longer science fiction. Imagine a warehouse where dozens of machines transport goods without colliding, ...

Weaver ants link their bodies together to form chains while bending leaves to create their elaborate dwellings. Rose Thumboor via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In the late 19th century, the ...

Chris R. Reid receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Macquarie University. He is secretary of both the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, and the Australasian ...