We got a glimpse of the future on Friday courtesy of robotics, artificial intelligence, and some of the smartest young people in the Bay Area. NBC Bay Area business and tech reporter Scott Budman ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Rivet” is that kind of tour guide who is always helpful and never complains — even if she falls over, offering only a plaintive, ...

Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...

Cynthia Sung, head of the Sung Robotics Lab within Penn’s GRASP Lab, is especially interested in getting high school students into engineering. Self-folding origami robots, anyone? Cynthia Sung.