A new generation of robots is beginning to take shape, one that moves, senses, and adapts more like living creatures.

A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

India is witnessing a unique shift in temple traditions as robotic elephants are being introduced in some Kerala temples as ...

In India's southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones in temple festivals. Rising concerns about ...

The latest TED talk feels a few years ahead of its time. Featuring Markus Fischer, the head of corporate design for German tech company Festo, the video shows what appears to be a sort of stiff ...

The new man-made creatures come after rising concerns about abuse and a number dangerous incidents involving the animals.

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...

The animatrons, crafted from fibreglass, iron and rubber, are intended to take the place of live elephants in Hindu temples.

Animal welfare The emergence of the robotic whale shark also helps to contribute to the ongoing dialogue regarding animal welfare issues in aquariums. Since the early 2000's, there has been increasing ...