Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. After two ...

WASHINGTON — In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking ...

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

Jake Weinstein and his dad, Gregory Weinstein, both spend a lot of time thinking about robots. Jake, an art student, has been ...

An internet-enabled art installation that launched Wednesday offers a strange proposition: the chance to pilot a $75,000 four-legged robot named Spot that is armed with a paintball gun. The robot may ...

In a groundbreaking moment for the art world, Sotheby's will auction the first-ever artwork created by a humanoid robot. Ai-Da, the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist, has produced a striking ...

As far as plant names go, the sleepy plant—or shy plant, or shameplant, known more formally as Mimosa pudica—is hard to beat. Touch one of its leaves and it curls up like it’s embarrassed, the ...

Using paper coated with silicon resin and iron particles, researchers created an untethered soft robot that can move without any electronics. This magnetically controlled device can detect heavy metal ...

Sitting in the upstairs lounge at the Chelsea Factory in Manhattan, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann leaned across a pleather couch and recited a few lines. “I see all the future and the past, and all that is ...