Sam Kriegman: They are a living swimming self-powered robot that is less than a millimeter across. Doug Blackiston: So some people were really very afraid of the technology. It's something new they've ...

Building a robot that can reliably perceive, plan, and act in the real world is hard—especially when conditions change minute to minute. Modern robotics teams are no longer just writing control code.

In their efforts to create smart robots, AI researchers have understandably tended to focus on the brains. But a group from MIT say AI can help us design better bodies for them too, and we should be ...