Still, we wondered, was using a robot a bit like cheating? Bill Whitaker: If you have a robot doing 99 percent of the work, where's the artistry? Giacomo Massari: In the idea. How you program the ...

A robot has delved into the radioactive ruins of Fukushima to retrieve a tiny chunk of spent nuclear fuel. It’s the first time solid fuel debris has been removed from the plant – but they’ve ...

Just when you thought you'd seen it all, ANYmal, the quadrupedal robot developed by ETH Zurich and commercialized by ANYbotics, is back to creep us out a bit, this time by conquering ladders.

The “telesco” robot, with its frontal tongs still holding the melted fuel bit, returned to the enclosed container for safe storage after workers in full hazmat gear pulled it out of the ...