In India's southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones in temple festivals. Rising concerns about ...

A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements ...

The new man-made creatures come after rising concerns about abuse and a number dangerous incidents involving the animals.

The animatrons, crafted from fibreglass, iron and rubber, are intended to take the place of live elephants in Hindu temples ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...

A four-legged robot now walks like a living, breathing creature—no rehearsals, no manual tweaks. Researchers at the University of Leeds designed it to move, react, and adapt entirely on its own.

The new man-made creatures come after rising concerns about abuse and a number dangerous incidents involving the animals. | ...