BEIJING (Reuters) - Wu Yulu has burned down his house, sprayed himself with battery acid, driven his wife to contemplate divorce and openly admits he loves a few contraptions made from scrap metal ...

Speaking to Ahti Heinla over Zoom is somewhat ironic. After all, this is the man who co-founded Skype back in 2003. In February Microsoft, now the owner of the world’s first mass-used video-calling ...

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 ...

British inventor James Bruton has built what most of us wildly dreamed of in childhood – a transformer robot that you can actually ride. The robot is a functional, shape-shifting vehicle that will ...

New Hampshire billionaire Rick Cohen built Symbotic into the biggest robotics company in the area after he bought out founder and inventor John Lert 15 years ago amid a cash crunch during the ...

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 ...