Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a New York state college lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, the sort you'd ...

One digitally evolved "soft robot" made by Cornell researchers gallops along a bit like a horse -- if that horse had its front and back legs glued together. Nick Cheney/Cornell One robot gallops and ...

Human beings have a long history of loving things that are not human beings. Robots, machines, artificial intelligence, and droids are all popular cultural symbols as long as they don’t cross into the ...