Japanese inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has created a whopping six robot clones of himself over the last 18 years, each bearing an increasingly close resemblance to himself. His latest creation, dubbed ...

Inside her home workshop, 24-year-old Danielle Boyer is revolutionizing how Indigenous youth connect with technology and their heritage. Boyer, founder of The STEAM Connection, created SKOBOTS — ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...

Scientists have built a robot that grows and heals by consuming other robots. The development heralds a new era of self-sustaining machines and an “entirely new dimension of autonomy” for artificial ...

When even the most highly trained surgeons perform procedures on the retina—one of the smallest, most delicate parts of the human body—the stakes are high. Surgeons must account for patients’ ...

Lite-Brite toys created by Burt Meyers part of the museum’s collection sitting in an arrangement at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. The Strong National Museum of Play via AP A ...