In 1982, personal computers were beige, boxy, and built for engineers. They were powerful, but uninviting. Few people knew what they were for, or why they might need one. It took more than just better ...

Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to communicate like ...

Robots, computers, rockets, bubbles, snakes, lizards, Legos, electricity, even LIGO — somehow-related experiences were on display Nov. 16 for teens and youth of the community at the annual STEM Expo ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

After the state of New Jersey revised its computer science standards in 2020, I was part of a professional learning community tasked with helping educators in all subjects understand the computer ...

Professor Boyuan Chen poses with some of his 3D printed robots that were designed and built through his new platform called Text2Robot that allows people to simply tell a computer what kind of robot ...

Part one: The long, hard road to today. The story of Prometheus ; The First Age: language and fire ; The Second Age: agriculture and cities ; The Third Age: writing and wheels ; The Fourth Age: robots ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.