Children already spend a lot of time looking at screens, so if they can be taught to draw using a physical pen and paper, so much the better. That's the thinking behind DrawBo, a wall-mounted ...

Tresset detailed two of his robots, Paul and e-David, in a paper published in 2014. Both of these robots use a camera to visualize their subject and a robotic arm to do the actual drawing.

Today, artist Alan Nolan is doing the robot... Now get some pens and paper and have a go yourself!

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the "moment of inertia"—the resistance to angular motion—drops dramatically. Our nano-quadrotor ...

Us humans are good at predicting how people will behave, particularly in groups, but artificial intelligence routines still have trouble dealing with much more than controlled, one-on-one ...